Curiosity Padlet by Claire Margaret Tatad https://padlet.com/clairetatad/d7r6h3ecifzdg8f5 en-us 2022-02-11 10:33:37 UTC 2022-02-11 14:58:33 UTC hello@padlet.com The Wedding at Cana clairetatad https://padlet.com/clairetatad/d7r6h3ecifzdg8f5/wish/2042130104 The following piece is an artwork by Paolo Veronese, entitled "The Wedding at Cana." This painting illustrates a story that comes from the New Testament, wherein Christ enacts his first miracle of turning water into wine. The religious depiction of Jesus’ first miracle unfolds in a wedding, which can be correlated with a resemblance of a new beginning.

In particular, this artwork was chosen for its grandeur banquet of a celebration, its use of Renaissance colours, Greco-Roman architecture, and its eminent intricate details; showing social  opulence of those beneath the balcony. Above however, is rather chaotic and the people can be assumed as mere spectators. Despite the many scenarios occurring and figures present, Jesus can be seen as rather "illuminated" and is the only one looking directly straight—making Christ the central figure that can be seen; this however is something off as it should be the bride and broom for it is a marriage. 

]]> 2022-02-11 10:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/clairetatad/d7r6h3ecifzdg8f5/wish/2042130104 The Gates of Hell clairetatad https://padlet.com/clairetatad/d7r6h3ecifzdg8f5/wish/2042159727 The Gates of Hell is a monumental sculptural group work by the French sculptor, Auguste Rodin. The doors were inspired and decorated with themes from Dante's Divine Comedy, Infero. The striking detail of the monumental sculpture is how merged the figures are into the surface of the "door", giving an illusion of struggle and constraint of being sucked into the underworld; figures constantly struggling to get out. The convulsed appearance of the many figures may depict the anguish and damnation of oneself.
 
 
]]> 2022-02-11 10:57:57 UTC https://padlet.com/clairetatad/d7r6h3ecifzdg8f5/wish/2042159727 The Pergamon Altar clairetatad https://padlet.com/clairetatad/d7r6h3ecifzdg8f5/wish/2042171926 The Pergamon Altar is one of the greatest and widely known Hellenistic Greek sculpture, built by King Eumenes II (197–159 BC).

The frieze thematically depicts a battle between divinity; Gods and Giants (Gigantomachy) derived from Greek mythology– portraying the God's victory over Giants.

]]> 2022-02-11 11:07:29 UTC https://padlet.com/clairetatad/d7r6h3ecifzdg8f5/wish/2042171926 The Qin Tomb Terracotta Warriors and Horses clairetatad https://padlet.com/clairetatad/d7r6h3ecifzdg8f5/wish/2042185168 The Qin Tomb Terracotta Warriors and Horses, known as the Terracotta Army, is a creation of more than 8,000 life-size terracotta statues for the mausoleum of the first emperor of China, Qin Shihuang, c. 221-206 B.C.E.

This served to show the First Emperor Qin Shihuang's glory, and as an afterlife army, for he sought to conquer death—achieve immortality.
]]> 2022-02-11 11:18:51 UTC https://padlet.com/clairetatad/d7r6h3ecifzdg8f5/wish/2042185168 The Garden of Earthly Delights clairetatad https://padlet.com/clairetatad/d7r6h3ecifzdg8f5/wish/2042352480 This composition is a triptych entitled "The Garden of Earthly Delights" by the Surrealist artist, Hieronymus Bosch. The three panels of the triptych express and portray the artists' imaginative religious beliefs in Heaven and Hell, God, and the Devil.

The left panel depicts God's creation of Adam and Eve; the centre panel portrays heaven; and lastly, the right panel depicts the artists' vision of Hell.]]> 2022-02-11 13:20:28 UTC https://padlet.com/clairetatad/d7r6h3ecifzdg8f5/wish/2042352480