{"id":2030,"date":"2021-12-09T12:24:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T17:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2021-12-09T12:24:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T17:24:02","slug":"ar257-12-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/12\/09\/ar257-12-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AR257 12\/2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this class, we continued our discussion on secular pieces of art.  As our first example, we revisted <em>The Garden of Earthly Delights<\/em>, emphasizing how many of these pieces were often conversation pieces.  Furthermore, we discussed how most of these secular art pieces came to have a market.  In trading towns, like ports or towns with mercantile systems, artists began to make art that was not intedned for specific patrons, but instead was art that was created for the free market.  Therefore, artists were able to specialize in certain, popular, or unique styles.  Furthermore, this meant that the audience for their art was largely increased, so artists began to look for themes or traditions that were favored by the masses.  Much like the art from the manuscripts of D\u00fcrer, the artists working in these free markets utilized stuff that the common person would understand.  For example, Bruegel utuilized moral stories that would not have been unfamiliar to the standard person, and therefore, were conversation pieces that would have a higher likelyhood of selling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this class, we continued our discussion on secular pieces of art. As our first example, we revisted The Garden of Earthly Delights, emphasizing how many of these pieces were often conversation pieces. Furthermore, we discussed how most of these secular art pieces came to have a market. In trading towns, like ports or towns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10319,"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\/2030"}],"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\/10319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}