{"id":1586,"date":"2021-11-02T15:56:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T15:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2021-11-02T15:56:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T15:56:16","slug":"10-28-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/11\/02\/10-28-3\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/28"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This class finished our exploration of the Arena Chapel.  Giotto&#8217;s use of posture and positioning of figures to direct sightlines to key parts of the fresco was interesting.  The artist simplified scenes and backgrounds, only including the most essential elements.  Placing extra people on the edges of scenes looking or gesturing towards the center prompts the viewer to see the parts that matter first.  This serves to boost the didactic aspects of the works, as elements key to the story depicted are made prominent.  Every scene, therefore, supports the overall message of the chapel.  Bosch&#8217;s <em>The Garden of Earthly Desires<\/em>, which we viewed at the end of class, presented a very different depiction of religious subjects than the ways we have seen before.  Religious imagery is harnessed for secular and personal use.  The utilization of the alchemical process in the triptych reflects something that may have been significant to the patron or artist.  Bosch&#8217;s handling of the stages reveals interesting comments on life, as conjunction, coagulation, and putrefaction are represented by marriage, copulation, and burning in Hell.  It would certainly have made an interesting conversation piece in the patron&#8217;s collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This class finished our exploration of the Arena Chapel. Giotto&#8217;s use of posture and positioning of figures to direct sightlines to key parts of the fresco was interesting. The artist simplified scenes and backgrounds, only including the most essential elements. Placing extra people on the edges of scenes looking or gesturing towards the center prompts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10549,"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\/1586"}],"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\/10549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}