{"id":1853,"date":"2021-11-26T14:55:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T19:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2021-11-26T14:55:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T19:55:15","slug":"11-9-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/11\/26\/11-9-6\/","title":{"rendered":"11\/9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this class, we continued talking about perspective. We studied Petrus Christus, <em>Exeter Madonna<\/em> because of its aerial perspective. This type of perspective is unique to Italians because it allowed them to show more of the scenery and objects. In the painting, we can see the blues of the sky and the houses bunched up, the loss of details. We moved on to study the Merode Triptych, which I really enjoyed learning about because of all the symbolism in the painting and the addition of Joseph. Joseph is usually omitted when it comes to Mary and the Child, but here we get to see Joseph. The painting is in a rising perspective allowing us to see more of the things happening in the back of Mary and the Angel. I thought it was funny that the annunciation came in the form of Jesus carrying the cross because that is his purpose of being born. We see the book sitting on top of the scroll, showing the movement of the old to the new testament. We see the candle representing Jesus in Human nature (wax), his soul (the wick), and his divinity (flame). There is no halo which is interesting, but again the artist was trying to move on to a more naturalistic scene rather than &#8220;imaginary&#8221; scenes. Joseph is in the other room, as he is building traps, traps that catch a mouse, or the devil. It also shows his sexual frustration because he married Mary and shows his contribution to helping Mary and Jesus. This was an independent portrait and an independent genre. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this class, we continued talking about perspective. We studied Petrus Christus, Exeter Madonna because of its aerial perspective. This type of perspective is unique to Italians because it allowed them to show more of the scenery and objects. In the painting, we can see the blues of the sky and the houses bunched up, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11460,"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\/1853"}],"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\/11460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1854,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}