{"id":1555,"date":"2021-10-28T17:02:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T17:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2021-10-28T17:02:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T17:02:49","slug":"class-10-26-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/10\/28\/class-10-26-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Class 10\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In class, we discussed the Limbourg Brothers&#8217; <em>Original Sin<\/em>.  In the painting, we see a continuous narrative depicting the scene from the Garden of Eden. First, Eve is told by the snake to eat the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge. Then, Eve is shown offering the fruit to Adam, but Adam appears quite resistant, while Eve is depicted as a temptress (a common characterization of Eve, especially during this time). This idea is reinforced by the snake&#8217;s resemblance to Eve&#8217;s face. What was particularly fascinating about this painting is the final narrative scene, which depicts Adam and Eve being expelled from the garden. Their exit from Eden to the real world parallel&#8217;s their exit from the painting to the rest of the empty page. This one of many ways artists of the time tried to involve the viewer in their works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In class, we discussed the Limbourg Brothers&#8217; Original Sin. In the painting, we see a continuous narrative depicting the scene from the Garden of Eden. First, Eve is told by the snake to eat the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge. Then, Eve is shown offering the fruit to Adam, but Adam appears quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11594,"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\/1555"}],"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\/11594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}