{"id":1842,"date":"2021-11-22T15:01:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T20:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2021-11-22T15:01:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T20:01:09","slug":"11-18-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/11\/22\/11-18-class\/","title":{"rendered":"11\/18 Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Thursday&#8217;s class, we began discussing portraits of women from the Renaissance.  One of the most interesting portraits we discussed is Titian&#8217;s <em>Venus of Urbino<\/em>.  It is important to note that the title was not give by Titian himself, and this has led to a great deal of debate in the art history world about who the woman in the portrait really is.  Is she a representation of Venus?  Almost certainly not.  It is more likely that the woman is the Duke of Urbino&#8217;s mistress or wife.  One of the more interesting symbols in the portrait is the sleeping dog.  Dogs are often used as symbols of fidelity, and the fact that the dog is asleep in the painting may indicate that the virtue of fidelity is not an active value at work (which could lead one to the conclusion that this is the Duke&#8217;s mistress).  In thinking about this painting, I began thinking a lot more about portraiture and the ways that the patron and the artist can influence the depiction of the person.  Thinking about that artistic manipulation as Renaissance-era photoshop has really helped me to understand the ways the works have been constructed and reminds me to think about what the artist wants me to see (wealth, personal characteristics) in each portrait they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Thursday&#8217;s class, we began discussing portraits of women from the Renaissance. One of the most interesting portraits we discussed is Titian&#8217;s Venus of Urbino. It is important to note that the title was not give by Titian himself, and this has led to a great deal of debate in the art history world about [&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\/1842"}],"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=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1843,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}