{"id":1992,"date":"2021-12-06T19:48:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T00:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2021-12-06T19:48:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T00:48:26","slug":"12-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/12\/06\/12-2-3\/","title":{"rendered":"12\/2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This class explored the emergence of the art market in the Low Countries.  Increased competition and the freedoms an artist had when not bound to a contract led to the need to specialize or improve their work.  The artist&#8217;s name became important, tied to their creations, and widely known.  Pieter Bruegel the Elder&#8217;s paintings, for example, depict tales and sayings with strong morals.  His <em>Fall of Icarus<\/em> conveys the message of that myth by embedding it into a much larger landscape scene, thereby enhancing its moral significance.  <em>Netherlandish Proverbs<\/em> similarly represents common sayings embedded in everyday life.  This painting would make a great conversation piece for anyone familiar with those proverbs, mostly for comedic value.  This is very different from the works we examined at the beginning of the term.  I found it interesting how series became extremely popular at this time.  It makes sense on reflection that purchasing a series could decorate an entire room with a theme, but I hadn&#8217;t thought of that previously.  For example, Bruegel the Elder&#8217;s seasons series of four paintings fit together very well.  Finally, the reference to van Eyck in Massys&#8217; <em>Money Changer and his Wife<\/em> was interesting because it shows a deference to and recognition of van Eyck&#8217;s influence on other artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This class explored the emergence of the art market in the Low Countries. Increased competition and the freedoms an artist had when not bound to a contract led to the need to specialize or improve their work. The artist&#8217;s name became important, tied to their creations, and widely known. Pieter Bruegel the Elder&#8217;s paintings, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10549,"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\/1992"}],"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\/10549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1993,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions\/1993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}