{"id":1712,"date":"2017-08-01T16:08:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T20:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2017-08-01T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T20:27:00","slug":"mexican-altarpiece-in-the-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/mexican-altarpiece-in-the-met\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Altarpiece in The Met"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/files\/2017\/08\/Villalpando.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1707\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/files\/2017\/08\/Villalpando.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"1298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/files\/2017\/08\/Villalpando.png 850w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/files\/2017\/08\/Villalpando-196x300.png 196w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/files\/2017\/08\/Villalpando-768x1173.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/files\/2017\/08\/Villalpando-671x1024.png 671w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a>The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers an exhibit of the work of Cristobal de Villalpando, especially the giant altarpiece designated \u201cMoses and the Brazen Serpent and the Transfiguration of Jesus\u201d (1683) through October 15, 2017. You can view this beautiful\u00a0altarpiece online on the Metropolitan Museum of Art&#8217;s\u00a0exhibition page\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/listings\/2017\/cristobal-de-villalpando\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.metmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/listings\/2017\/cristobal-de-villalpando<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aolmail_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\">Jason Farago&#8217;s article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/26\/arts\/design\/mexico-cristobal-de-villalpando-metropolitan-museum.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;From Colonial Mexico, a Towering Vision of Grace,&#8221;<\/a> in the <em>New York Times<\/em> presents a laudatory overview of Villalpando\u2019s eleven works that are on display at this exhibit, with a large reproduction of the altarpiece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"aolmail_MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify\">The upper level of this painting presents the transfigured Jesus accompanied by Moses and Elijah. Luke notes that they spoke of his <u>exodus<\/u>, which he was to accomplish in Jerusalem (Luke 9:30-31). This explains why, at the bottom of the painting, the artist depicts the wilderness attack of serpents and God\u2019s command for Moses to make a bronze serpent on a pole as a life-saver for those bitten (Numbers 21:4-9; Wisdom of Solomon 16:5-7).\u00a0 A Latin inscription of John 3:14-15 shows the artist\u2019s intention to link this episode to the exodus\/passion of Jesus. Those who observe the Feast of the Transfiguration on August 6<sup>th<\/sup> will find this painting to be very evocative!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers an exhibit of the work of Cristobal de Villalpando, especially the giant altarpiece designated \u201cMoses and the Brazen Serpent and the Transfiguration of Jesus\u201d (1683) through October 15, 2017. You can view this beautiful\u00a0altarpiece &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/mexican-altarpiece-in-the-met\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}