{"id":312,"date":"2017-03-18T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-10-26T21:14:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T21:14:52","slug":"belvedere-torso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/18\/belvedere-torso\/","title":{"rendered":"Belvedere Torso"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">The third and final <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Bargue\" target=\"_blank\">Bargue Drawing<\/a>&nbsp;for students at the Florence Academy is one of two different views of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Belvedere_Torso\" target=\"_blank\">Belvedere Torso<\/a>. A well known fragment of an unidentified sculpture from antiquity, the Belvedere torso copying exercise is infamous in its own right at the Florence Academy. Completing the torso requires mastery of a variety of conceptual and technical tools used in drawing. Observe, for instance, the variety of shadows involved in the torso: cast shadow, form turning away from the light, planes in a variety of relationships to the light source, reflections within larger shadow shapes, and combinations of all of the above. Each type of shadow requires a different kind of description and different types of charcoal handling. So, here&#8217;s to this rite of passage! Now I get to move on to cast drawings&#8230; coming up soon.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/fullsizeoutput_f58.jpeg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/fullsizeoutput_f58-214x300.jpeg\" width=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">18&#8243;x26&#8243; Charcoal on Roma Paper, Copy from Original Cast Drawing by Charles Bargue<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third and final Bargue Drawing&nbsp;for students at the Florence Academy is one of two different views of the Belvedere Torso. A well known fragment of an unidentified sculpture from antiquity, the Belvedere torso copying exercise is infamous in its own right at the Florence Academy. Completing the torso requires mastery of a variety of conceptual and technical tools used&hellip; <span class=\"read-more-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/18\/belvedere-torso\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Belvedere Torso&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}