{"id":1464,"date":"2021-10-21T18:46:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T18:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2021-10-21T18:46:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T18:46:46","slug":"10-21-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/10\/21\/10-21-class\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/21 Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Thursday&#8217;s class we discussed <em>Tr\u00e8s Riches Heures<\/em>, one of the Duke of Berry&#8217;s most extravagant book of hours.  In talking about this, we learned about the Duke of Berry&#8217;s extensive collections of books, art, paintings, ancient art, books, buildings, miniature sculptures, and buildings.  He was a dedicated collector who took multiple inventories of his collections throughout his life to be sure that he knew what was in his collections so that he could add to it most appropriately.  <em>Tr\u00e8s Riches Heures<\/em> was especially made for him and he is featured prominently in many of the works and is compared to a saint (both in size and allusion to the presence of a halo).  The most pompous image from his collection is the painting by Boucicaut Master which depicts him being welcomed at the gates of heaven by St. Peter.  This speaks volumes about the Duke of Berry&#8217;s position in feudal society and how he was regarded by the artists in his household\/court\/collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Thursday&#8217;s class we discussed Tr\u00e8s Riches Heures, one of the Duke of Berry&#8217;s most extravagant book of hours. In talking about this, we learned about the Duke of Berry&#8217;s extensive collections of books, art, paintings, ancient art, books, buildings, miniature sculptures, and buildings. He was a dedicated collector who took multiple inventories of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9328,"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\/1464"}],"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\/9328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}