{"id":930,"date":"2021-09-12T21:35:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T21:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=930"},"modified":"2021-09-12T21:35:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T21:35:11","slug":"ar257-9-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/09\/12\/ar257-9-9\/","title":{"rendered":"AR257 9\/9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the first reading and lecture, it became apparent that the way art is considered, created, and perceived has much to do with its physical and cultural context.  While this is true about its present context, such as artworks in a museum, the context in which it was created by the original artist also serves to give valuable insight into a piece.  This was apparent with the allusion to Goethe&#8217;s perception of the Dresden Musuem, which he compared to a &#8220;house of God&#8221;, and which housed works like <em>The Sistine Madonna<\/em>, which as we discussed was initially an alterpiece of a church.   Even still, the two angels at the bottom of the painting have been further removed from their original context, becoming the centerpiece on many modern pieces of merchandise. This example, presented by Johnson and further explored in class, goes to demonstrate how the perception of a piece can transform with context. Furthermore, we explored the meaning of the word Renaissance, including its origin, its function as a word that defines a time period, and the multiple definitions by historians of different cultures.  This, along with the reference to Vasari&#8217;s opinion on Florentine art, also displayed how even an art historians&#8217; opinions can be swayed by the culture they are a part of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first reading and lecture, it became apparent that the way art is considered, created, and perceived has much to do with its physical and cultural context. While this is true about its present context, such as artworks in a museum, the context in which it was created by the original artist also serves [&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\/930"}],"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=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}