{"id":1432,"date":"2021-10-15T14:42:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T14:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2021-10-15T14:42:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T14:42:41","slug":"10-14-woodprint-and-manuscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/10\/15\/10-14-woodprint-and-manuscript\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/14. Woodprint and manuscript"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this class, we first talked about the woodcut technic, which allowed mass production in a relatively short time. Through the use of the new medium, an artist&#8217;s artwork could be spread widely. It is interesting that Albrecht D\u00fcrer had his name and symbol cut on the woodcut and thus be printed out and recognized by the audience. His woodcut of <em>The Four Horsemen, The Babylonian Whore <\/em>from the <em>Apocalypse<\/em> series stood out to me, and the name of the four horsemen &#8220;conquest&#8221;, &#8220;war&#8221;, &#8220;plague&#8221;, &#8220;death&#8221;, respectively, are interesting. I was impressed at how the people in the 15 century were obsessed with apocalypse stories and perceive reading manuscripts as a way of relaxing, just like we 21-century people get pleasure from scary movies and books. The duality of sacred and secular aspects of artworks is well-presented by the manuscript, as it is both read by devout followers in their personal devotional practice but also a means to relax in daily life. In Master of Mary of Burgundy, <em>Hours of Engelbert of Nassau<\/em>, objects depicted at the border are so vivid with shadows that they almost appear as real, which is a technic called &#8220;trick the eyes&#8221;. My favorite one is the Annunciation page, where the scene itself seems to be put on some beautiful real peacock feathers. The feathers are related to the wings of Gabriel, showing this artwork has not only aesthetic value but also religious meanings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this class, we first talked about the woodcut technic, which allowed mass production in a relatively short time. Through the use of the new medium, an artist&#8217;s artwork could be spread widely. It is interesting that Albrecht D\u00fcrer had his name and symbol cut on the woodcut and thus be printed out and recognized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}