{"id":8941,"date":"2018-09-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=8941"},"modified":"2018-09-26T09:41:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T13:41:32","slug":"palissy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=8941","title":{"rendered":"Palissy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve never watched an art documentary by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Waldemar_Januszczak\">Waldemar Januszczak<\/a>, I highly recommend them. Especially his series on epochs of art. He takes some getting used to. We started out calling him the World&#8217;s Most Emphatic Art Historian. Once we saw more, it became Wally the Angry Hobbit. With affection.<\/p>\n<p>It was in his series on the Renaissance that I was introduced to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_Palissy\">Bernard Palissy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8942\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pal-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"888\" height=\"736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pal-1.jpg 888w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pal-1-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pal-1-768x637.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pal-1-600x497.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 888px) 100vw, 888px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>His pottery is filled with lizards, snakes, and frogs, often molded from specimens.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8943\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pal-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pal-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pal-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pal-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pal-2-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The symbolism is intended to remind us we are all born of sin. Well, you know, Renaissance. He lived a long and interesting life, dying in the Bastille at the age of 80. He totally deserves a biopic. For now, we can just admire his art.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8944\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pal-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"611\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pal-3.jpg 611w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pal-3-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pal-3-600x589.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 611px) 100vw, 611px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8945\" src=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pal-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pal-4.jpg 960w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pal-4-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pal-4-768x562.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pal-4-600x439.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve never watched an art documentary by Waldemar Januszczak, I highly recommend them. Especially his series on epochs of art. He takes some getting used to. We started out calling him the World&#8217;s Most Emphatic Art Historian. Once we saw more, it became Wally the Angry Hobbit. With affection. It was in his series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8946,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8941\/revisions\/8946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}