{"id":1952,"date":"2021-12-02T14:31:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T19:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2021-12-02T14:31:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T19:31:28","slug":"11-30-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/12\/02\/11-30-class\/","title":{"rendered":"11\/30 Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Tuesday\u2019s class we discussed Botticelli\u2019s <em>Primavera<\/em>, a magnificent work painted for Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de\u2019Medici.\u00a0 The work was commissioned for Lorenzo\u2019s wedding, and has lots of references to all the aspects of a strong marriage.\u00a0 Its rich floral design is almost reminiscent of a tapestry and really envelops the viewer into the garden of Venus, which is eternally in spring.\u00a0 The Zephyr at the far right of the painting represents a gentle wind, which blows the beautiful scents of the orange trees and flowers around and creates really perfect weather.\u00a0 In this painting, Venus is representing love in the context of marriage (as opposed to lust), and therefore her clothes are adorned with pearls (representing purity) and flames (representing the flames of love and St. Lawrence, a play on Lorenzo, the name of the man who commissioned the work).\u00a0 We also see the Cupid, her son with Mercury, the god of messengers, thieves, merchants, and eloquence flying above the garden.\u00a0 This reminds viewers that in the Renaissance, marriages was done to produce a child and to merge powerful families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Tuesday\u2019s class we discussed Botticelli\u2019s Primavera, a magnificent work painted for Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de\u2019Medici.\u00a0 The work was commissioned for Lorenzo\u2019s wedding, and has lots of references to all the aspects of a strong marriage.\u00a0 Its rich floral design is almost reminiscent of a tapestry and really envelops the viewer into the garden 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\/1952"}],"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=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1953,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}