{"id":1581,"date":"2021-11-02T13:50:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2021-11-02T13:50:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:50:49","slug":"10-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/11\/02\/10-28\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/28"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today in class, we went over works from a plethora of artists, but the Sassetti Chapel with the <em>Life of St. Francis<\/em> most interested me. St. Francis as a character is very unique. St. Francis left his home and family to become a hermit, ultimately deciding on becoming an itinerant preacher. His focus for preaching was the value of poverty and gratitude, and throughout his career, St. Franic gained a large amount of followers. Therefore, it makes sense that he was canonized two years after his death, which is a very fast timeline. <em>The Life of St. Franic<\/em> is an altarpiece with paneled narration. My favorite panel is the miraculous resurrection of a child. Not only does this symbolize the legacy of St. Francis, but it also has an interesting representation of him from the afterlife. We have not come across a lot of dead saints in the real world, but the way in which St. Francis spirit was represented was both logical and creative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in class, we went over works from a plethora of artists, but the Sassetti Chapel with the Life of St. Francis most interested me. St. Francis as a character is very unique. St. Francis left his home and family to become a hermit, ultimately deciding on becoming an itinerant preacher. His focus for preaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11204,"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\/1581"}],"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\/11204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1582,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions\/1582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}