{"id":340,"date":"2015-09-23T09:44:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T13:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/?p=340"},"modified":"2015-09-23T09:44:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T13:44:47","slug":"a-500-year-old-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/09\/23\/a-500-year-old-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"A 500 Year Old Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learning about the deep symbolism that many Renaissance era painters incorporated into their work, and the ways that they used techniques like perspective and shadow to increase the reality of their works reminded me of something I saw when I visited the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.\u00a0 Deep in the vast Renaissance art collection, I came across a painting that had an information plaque next to it.\u00a0 Instead of explaining the historical context of the painting like most other plaques did, this one pointed out a 500 year old joke.\u00a0 If you looked closely, the artist had painted a life-sized fly onto the painting.\u00a0 On first glance, it looked like it was real, that a fly had gotten into the museum and landed on this painting, and in a couple minutes I \u00a0might see it in the next exhibit.\u00a0 But no, the artist had made the intentional choice to \u201cdeface\u201d his own painting, and include this joke.\u00a0 I found it interesting to think about last night, when Professor Plesch was discussing the use of mimesis as an increasingly serious and appreciated for of art, because sometimes, memesis is just a joke.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the picture I took of the painting:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/files\/2015\/09\/1513708_10153277995537502_4153540802536414338_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-341\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/files\/2015\/09\/1513708_10153277995537502_4153540802536414338_n-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"1513708_10153277995537502_4153540802536414338_n\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/files\/2015\/09\/1513708_10153277995537502_4153540802536414338_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/files\/2015\/09\/1513708_10153277995537502_4153540802536414338_n-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/files\/2015\/09\/1513708_10153277995537502_4153540802536414338_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning about the deep symbolism that many Renaissance era painters incorporated into their work, and the ways that they used techniques like perspective and shadow to increase the reality of their works reminded me of something I saw when I&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/2015\/09\/23\/a-500-year-old-joke\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[248679],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}