{"id":3185,"date":"2016-03-19T06:47:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T06:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcalog.com\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2016-03-19T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T16:30:00","slug":"a-brief-history-of-modesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcalog.com\/a-brief-history-of-modesty\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Modesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking through the Louvre the other day, I was struck by how different the Greek and Roman sculpture exhibits are from those of the medieval period.\u00a0 In the latter, chastity and motherhood are celebrated instead of the purely sensual.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3187\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1C0A2691.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3187 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/arcalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1C0A2691-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"1C0A2691\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1C0A2691-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arcalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1C0A2691-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/arcalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1C0A2691-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arcalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/1C0A2691.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virgin of the Annunciation (?) &#8211; D&#8217;apres Mino da Fiesole (?) Papiano, Palagio fiorentino, 1429 &#8211; Florence, 1483 (Courtesy of the Louvre R.F.588)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The symbols and representational artwork of natural religion have remained constant through the ages.\u00a0 They may be expressed spectacularly in Greek sculpture or Renaissance art, or they may be depicted crudely on primitive tribal masks or on MTV, but they draw from the same well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking through the Louvre the other day, I was struck by how different the Greek and Roman sculpture exhibits are from those of the medieval period.\u00a0 In the latter, chastity and motherhood are celebrated instead of the purely sensual. The symbols and representational artwork of natural religion have remained constant through the ages.\u00a0 They may &#8230; <a title=\"A Brief History of Modesty\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/arcalog.com\/a-brief-history-of-modesty\/\" aria-label=\"More on A Brief History of Modesty\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3185"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/arcalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3217,"href":"https:\/\/arcalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions\/3217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}