{"id":678,"date":"2017-09-10T00:28:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T00:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/?p=678"},"modified":"2019-08-10T20:52:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T20:52:36","slug":"hypatia-astronomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/2017\/09\/hypatia-astronomer\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypatia (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hypatia of Alexandria was a mathematician and astronomer in Egypt in the late 300s &#8211; early 400s.\u00a0 She is generally regarded as having been a genius.\u00a0 According to most accounts, she was murdered for religious reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The painting was done with acrylics on 12-inch by 18-inch canvas.\u00a0 The foreground was painted first &#8212; the rest of the painting almost demanded itself.\u00a0 The pearlescent stars represent a real sky &#8212; I chose a North American sky in May, our wedding anniversary month.<\/p>\n<p>Most of all, I am happy that the owner of this painting is happy with it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-636\" src=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/hypatia-720-547x720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/hypatia-720.jpg 547w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/hypatia-720-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hypatia of Alexandria was a mathematician and astronomer in Egypt in the late 300s &#8211; early 400s.\u00a0 She is generally regarded as having been a genius.\u00a0 According to most accounts, she was murdered for religious reasons. The painting was done with acrylics on 12-inch by 18-inch canvas.\u00a0 The foreground was painted first &#8212; the rest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-individual-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}