{"id":875,"date":"2019-07-19T14:36:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T14:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/?p=875"},"modified":"2019-07-19T14:36:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T14:36:57","slug":"sam-henthorn-20-classical-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/2019\/07\/19\/sam-henthorn-20-classical-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Henthorn \u201920 \u2014 Classical Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_876\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-876\" style=\"width: 132px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/07\/Sam-Henthorn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-876\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/07\/Sam-Henthorn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Henthorn \u201920<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Sam Henthorn \u201920<\/em> \u2014\u00a0While I was living in Rome this past semester, I had the extraordinary opportunity to visit a multitude of museums showcasing classical art. I was enrolled in an early Christian art class which focused on the emergence of the budding religion through visual representation.<\/p>\n<p>In the classroom, the idea of a marble sculpture or a terracotta pot decorated with mythical scenes lacks a certain flash. The idea of sculpture may seem impressive in the theoretical, but to see an ancient masterpiece such as The Boxer at Restin person creates a completely new sense of awe.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout my travels this past semester, I was fortunate enough to visit the Pergamum, Nives, and Altes Museums in Berlin, Germany along with the Vatican and British Museums. Between the five of these collections is a significant piece of all of the extant classical works open to the public, and perhaps the closest look into what life in eras past may have been like.<\/p>\n<p>As I began to see pieces that I recognized (such as the Market Gates of Miletus), I was not only surprised by the monuments\/sculptures themselves but also by my reaction. I always knew that these people, emperors, and palaces existed through writings and pictures, but looking at the same artwork that so many ancient peoples saw created a connection between me and them that text alone was not able to spark.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this opportunity that the Givens family provided me, I was able to observe the progression from Classical Greek artwork all the way to the later Imperial period, which has only supplemented my education in a way that Wabash alone would never have been able to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Henthorn \u201920 \u2014\u00a0While I was living in Rome this past semester, I had the extraordinary opportunity to visit a multitude of museums showcasing classical art. I was enrolled in an early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-givens-scholarship"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/07\/Sam-Henthorn.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}