{"id":1646,"date":"2021-11-04T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2021-11-04T17:28:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T17:28:55","slug":"11-4-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/11\/04\/11-4-class\/","title":{"rendered":"11\/4  Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today in class, we discussed The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. One concept thatI felt was particularly compelling was numerology. This is the study pf numbers and the meanings ascribed to them, in art specifically in this case. In this painting, we can see two numbers that appear as recurring themes. The first is three, which alludes to the Holy Trinity, as well as the three theological virtues. The number three is manifested in the painting as we see the apostles in groups of three. Additionally, there are three windows behind the group, the largest of which is placed behind Christ, acting as his halo. The number four is also a recurring theme in the painting. This number is meant to evoke the four gospels and the cardinal virtues. We see the number in the panels on the walls, of which there are four. There are four groups of apostles as well.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in class, we discussed The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. One concept thatI felt was particularly compelling was numerology. This is the study pf numbers and the meanings ascribed to them, in art specifically in this case. In this painting, we can see two numbers that appear as recurring themes. The first is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11214,"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\/1646"}],"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\/11214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1647,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}