{"id":3825,"date":"2017-04-09T09:59:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T14:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hulettsonlakegeorge.com\/?p=3825"},"modified":"2017-04-09T09:59:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T14:59:20","slug":"palm-sunday-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3825","title":{"rendered":"Palm Sunday 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/6d\/Entry_into_Jerusalem_-_Pieter_Coecke_van_Aelst_-_Google_Cultural_Institute.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/Entry_into_Jerusalem_Pieter_Coecke_van_Aelst.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Entry into Jerusalem<br \/>\nPieter Coecke van Aelst<br \/>\ncirca 1530 and 1535<br \/>\nFrom the collection of  Bonnefantenmuseum<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In the foreground, several figures are cheering Christ on his entry into Jerusalem on a donkey. The Mount of Olives, where Jesus and his disciples have come from, can be seen in the distance. The painting gives a very lively impression. The movement in the composition, along with the abundance of human figures and the bright, fresh colours, creates an exuberant whole. A striking element of this painting is the unusual contortions of the figures. The architecture of the city wall works like a sort of stage set for the scene in the foreground. The bright colours are characteristic of the wings of a large retable, as the pictures had to be seen and understood from a great distance by people who were mostly illiterate.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entry into Jerusalem Pieter Coecke van Aelst circa 1530 and 1535 From the collection of Bonnefantenmuseum &#8220;In the foreground, several figures are cheering Christ on his entry into Jerusalem on a donkey. The Mount of Olives, where Jesus and his disciples have come from, can be seen in the distance. The painting gives a very &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3825\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Palm Sunday 2017&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-international-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}