{"id":1682,"date":"2021-11-07T22:18:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T03:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2021-11-07T22:18:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T03:18:42","slug":"11-4-class-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/11\/07\/11-4-class-2\/","title":{"rendered":"11\/4 Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Thursday&#8217;s class, we began by discussing Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s <em>The Last Supper<\/em> fresco in the Santa Maria delle Grazie church in Milan.  In this work, Leonardo has depicted the moment that Jesus tells his disciples that someone at that table will betray Him and Leonardo really creates a sense of animation with each of the disciples reacting in a different way.  Professor Plesch told us that Leonardo was very interested in math and he plays with 3s and 4s in this fresco.  There are 4 panels on each side and 3 openings behind the table, with the central opening being larger and acting as a halo.  The number 3 corresponds with the Trinity and the 3 Theological virtues (faith, hope, and love).  The number 4 corresponds with the 4 gospels, the 4 cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, temperance, and courage), the 4 rivers of Paradise, 4 seasons of the year, and 4 times of day.  She also extended this to include 7 (4 + 3), which represents the 7 sorrows and joys of the Virgin, vices, and virtues.  Additionally, 12 (4 x 3) represents the 12 apostles, 12 months of the year, and the 12 hours of the day and night.  I found this to be fascinating and it was such a great way to introduce the mathematical concept of perspective in art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Thursday&#8217;s class, we began by discussing Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s The Last Supper fresco in the Santa Maria delle Grazie church in Milan. In this work, Leonardo has depicted the moment that Jesus tells his disciples that someone at that table will betray Him and Leonardo really creates a sense of animation with each of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9328,"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\/1682"}],"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\/9328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}