{"id":768,"date":"2015-12-04T13:51:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T18:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accas\/?p=768"},"modified":"2016-06-23T13:43:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T17:43:33","slug":"science-and-art-meet-at-the-met-october-3-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accas\/2015\/12\/04\/science-and-art-meet-at-the-met-october-3-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Science and Art Meet at the Met October 3, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-759 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accas\/files\/2015\/09\/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_at_1000_5th_Ave_-300x129.jpg\" alt=\"Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_at_1000_5th_Ave_\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accas\/files\/2015\/09\/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_at_1000_5th_Ave_-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accas\/files\/2015\/09\/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_at_1000_5th_Ave_.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The Asprey Center collaborated with the Department of Earth Science and Geography on a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 3, 2015. The purpose of the trip was to investigate properties of earth materials through the lens of art and archeology. After meeting up at \u00a0the Temple of Dendur to look at the carvings of papyrus and lotus plants into the buff, yellow sandstone from which the Temple was constructed, thirty students and two faculty members dispersed in small groups to examine art and artifacts from the Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, MIddle American and Near Eastern galleries. \u00a0Which types of rock were most commonly used to make large sculptures?\u00a0Which minerals\u00a0are most commonly used to make jewelry?\u00a0Which minerals are most commonly used to make pigments used to decorate walls or statues? We addressed these questions and learned that people of ancient cultures in their resourcefulness used readily available materials for everyday tools as well as adornments .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asprey Center collaborated with the Department of Earth Science and Geography on a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 3, 2015. The purpose of the trip was to investigate properties of earth materials through the lens of art and archeology. After meeting up at \u00a0the Temple of Dendur to look at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accas\/2015\/12\/04\/science-and-art-meet-at-the-met-october-3-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Science and Art Meet at the Met October 3, 2015&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3310,"featured_media":759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,58530,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-previous-programs","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/accas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}