{"id":1734,"date":"2021-11-11T12:29:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T17:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2021-11-11T12:29:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T17:29:21","slug":"disguised-symbolism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/11\/11\/disguised-symbolism\/","title":{"rendered":"Disguised Symbolism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is disguised symbolism? It is objects that are within a painting that are at home in the painting (do not stick out), but convey symbolic meaning. For reference, there is Jan van Eyck, <em>Ghent Altarpiece Altarpiece of the Lamb), <\/em>c. 1432. Ghent: Cathedral of St. Bavo. The doors, which seem normal in the work, are symbolic of the doors in heaven. The actions occurring inside of the room are all religious, so the altarpiece is saying if you do these things, the doors of heaven will be open. Additionally, all the objects on the table in the middle image are symbolic in a way. The book is a reference to the Old Testament, and the three white lilies refer to the holy trinity. Two of the lilies are fully grown, but the third is a bud, referring to unborn Jesus who is about to enter the Madonna&#8217;s womb. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is disguised symbolism? It is objects that are within a painting that are at home in the painting (do not stick out), but convey symbolic meaning. For reference, there is Jan van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece Altarpiece of the Lamb), c. 1432. Ghent: Cathedral of St. Bavo. The doors, which seem normal in the work, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11917,"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\/1734"}],"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\/11917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}