{"id":17293,"date":"2015-10-01T01:05:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T00:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17293"},"modified":"2015-10-01T01:05:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T00:05:44","slug":"lunar-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/10\/01\/lunar-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Abraham_Pether_-_Evening_scene_with_full_moon_and_persons_(1801).jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lunar11.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lunar11.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Evening Scene with Full Moon and Persons (1801) by Abraham Pether.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More moons. The thing you immediately notice when looking at paintings of the moon is how many of them show moonlight reflected on water, while the moon itself tends to change its size. There are many more examples <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Moonlight_in_paintings\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Mondaufgang_\u00fcber_dem_Meer_(1821).jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lunar09.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lunar09.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Moonrise Over the Sea (c. 1821) by Caspar David Friedrich.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Johan_Christian_Dahl_-_View_of_Dresden_by_Moonlight_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lunar16.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lunar16.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>View of Dresden by Moonlight (1839) by Johan Christian Dahl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Cornelius_David_Krieghoff_-_Marine.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lunar15.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lunar15.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Marine View \u2013 Moonlight (c. 1845) by Cornelius Krieghoff.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Christian_Morgenstern_-_Helgoland_im_Mondlicht_(1851).jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lunar14.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lunar14.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Helgoland in Moonlight (1851) by Christian Ernst Bernhard Morgenstern.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Aivazovsky_Crimea_1853.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lunar12.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lunar12.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Crimean Coast by Moonlight (1853) by Ivan Aivazovsky.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Abraham_Hulk,_Snr_-_Sailing_vessels_in_a_moonlit_harbor_with_fishermen_and_their_boats_in_the_foreground.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lunar10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lunar10.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Sailing Vessels in a Moonlit Harbour (no date) by Abraham Hulk Senior.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Arthur_Gilbert_-_Lowtide_by_Moonlight.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lunar13.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/lunar13.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Lowtide by Moonlight (no date) by Arthur Gilbert.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/09\/30\/lunar-observations\/\">Lunar observations<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/01\/03\/lunation-art-on-the-moon\/\">Lunation: Art on the Moon<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/10\/08\/somnium-by-steve-moore\/\">Somnium by Steve Moore<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/12\/31\/blood-on-the-moon\/\">Blood on the Moon<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/03\/02\/filippo-morghens-voyage-to-the-moon\/\">Filippo Morghen\u2019s Voyage to the Moon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evening Scene with Full Moon and Persons (1801) by Abraham Pether. More moons. The thing you immediately notice when looking at paintings of the moon is how many of them show moonlight reflected on water, while the moon itself tends to change its size. There are many more examples here. Moonrise Over the Sea (c. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/10\/01\/lunar-light\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lunar light&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,44],"tags":[7661,7657,7662,871,7660,7659,7653,7658],"class_list":["post-17293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-painting","tag-abraham-hulk-senior","tag-abraham-pether","tag-arthur-gilbert","tag-caspar-david-friedrich","tag-christian-ernst-bernhard-morgenstern","tag-cornelius-krieghoff","tag-ivan-aivazovsky","tag-johan-christian-dahl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4uV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}