{"id":1706,"date":"2021-11-09T20:19:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T01:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2021-11-09T20:19:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T01:19:21","slug":"11-9-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/11\/09\/11-9-class\/","title":{"rendered":"11\/9 Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Tuesday’s class, we discussed the details of Robert Campin’s M\u00e9rode Triptych<\/em> at great length. The painting is filled with tiny details that carry significant meaning for the depiction of the annunciation, the timing of the annunciation in relation to the story told by the Bible, and the architecture and fashions of the time in which it was painted. The jug on the table in the middle of the central panel carries lots of meaning\u2014it looks just like the ones used by priests to wash their hands before saying the mass; it bears letters that look like Hebrew; and it holds three white lilies (which are a popular symbol for representing the purity of the Virgin), two of which have bloomed, and one of which is still a bud (the bloomed flowers representing the Father and the Holy Spirit and the bud representing Christ, who has yet to be born in his human form). The candle next to the jug on the table could also carry many different meanings, and our discussion of these possibilities was really thought-provoking for me. We talked about how the extinguished candle could be a metaphor for Christ (the wax as his human nature, the wick as his soul, and the flame as his divinity with the flame being temporarily extinguished because he is temporarily giving up his divinity to become man), it could represent the ending of one religious order and the beginning of a new one, it could represent the brightness of baby Jesus outshining all other light in the world, and it could represent the marital tradition of leaving a candle burning until the marriage has been consummated. I really enjoyed today’s class and look forward to exploring the intricate details of many more paintings like this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Tuesday’s class, we discussed the details of Robert Campin’s M\u00e9rode Triptych at great length. The painting is filled with tiny details that carry significant meaning for the depiction of the annunciation, the timing of the annunciation in relation to the story told by the Bible, and the architecture and fashions of the time in […]<\/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\/1706"}],"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=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1707,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}