{"id":1656,"date":"2021-11-05T03:38:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T03:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2021-11-05T03:38:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T03:38:02","slug":"11-4-class-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/11\/05\/11-4-class-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"11\/4 Class Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During today&#8217;s class, we discussed Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s <em>The Last Supper<\/em>. It started with a discussion of how Leonardo experimented with the way he did this fresco because he used tempera to paint it which is why it cannot really be called a fresco. Along with this, it focuses on the moment when Christ announces that someone in that room will betray him which is what creates the reactions and expressions of the people around him. However, something that we focused on today was perspective and how it was used in different paintings. In <em>The Last Supper<\/em>, Leonardo is able to create depth which allows the plane of space the painting represents to be shown properly. On top this, the panels on the side of the walls converge at Christ&#8217;s eye which shows that it is the vanishing point, placing him at a sort of focus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perspective was also shown as one point perspective in <em>The Holy Trinity<\/em>. This artwork takes advantage of what perspective suggests in order to get across its message. Aside from perspective, this artwork is also a symbolic representation of the trinity despite it showing a crucifixion because it does not actually depict the scene of the crucifixion. Like stated, this artwork instead explores a Throne of Mercy trinity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Going back to the idea of perspective, we also discussed how Italian art used perspective more rigorously with set constructions and rules. Northerners were looser with these constructs and would often use a rising perspective that cause the scene to be tilted up and give more room to fill up with stuff. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During today&#8217;s class, we discussed Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s The Last Supper. It started with a discussion of how Leonardo experimented with the way he did this fresco because he used tempera to paint it which is why it cannot really be called a fresco. Along with this, it focuses on the moment when Christ announces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11790,"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\/1656"}],"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\/11790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}