{"id":2054,"date":"2021-12-10T16:58:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T21:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2021-12-10T16:58:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T21:58:17","slug":"12-9-the-last-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/12\/10\/12-9-the-last-class\/","title":{"rendered":"12\/9. The Last Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the last class of this semester, we learned a new notion that began to emerge in the late 15th century&#8211;the creation of art for only art&#8217;s sake. Giambologna&#8217;s <em>Rape of the Sabines<\/em> is one of the earliest examples. In order to show people that his skill and talent weren&#8217;t limited to small sculptures, Giambologna decided to create a complex life-size statue with three bodies twining with each other.  The <em>rape of the Sabines<\/em> thus doesn&#8217;t contain any story or moral lesson. The artist creates it just for making an amazing sculpture&#8211;the &#8220;art&#8217;s sake&#8221;. What else stood out to me was Michelangelo&#8217;s <em>Waking Slave<\/em>, a sculpture that hasn&#8217;t been<em> <\/em>finished. It really gives me the idea that Michelangelo gives life to perfect figures coming out of stone. This unfinished artwork reminds people where his other great sculptures, such as <em>David<\/em>, come from, and thus people admire him more. At the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century, there was a prevailing tradition for artists to sign their name to their artwork, corresponding to the increasing emphasis on artists themselves. This is an important shift in the Renaissance as in the previous time people pay more attention to patrons and artworks themselves rather than the creators of art. There is also an emergence of &#8220;Mannerism&#8221;, and artworks in this style have somehow ambiguity in their content. One example is Jacopo da Pontormo&#8217;s <em>Piet\u00e0<\/em>, where we are unsure what the man at the lower middle is wearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last class of this semester, we learned a new notion that began to emerge in the late 15th century&#8211;the creation of art for only art&#8217;s sake. Giambologna&#8217;s Rape of the Sabines is one of the earliest examples. In order to show people that his skill and talent weren&#8217;t limited to small sculptures, Giambologna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11201,"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\/2054"}],"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\/11201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2057,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions\/2057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}