{"id":12707,"date":"2011-10-11T14:05:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T19:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=12707"},"modified":"2011-10-11T14:05:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T19:05:52","slug":"display-examines-the-real-face-of-isaac-brock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/10\/display-examines-the-real-face-of-isaac-brock\/","title":{"rendered":"Display examines the real face of Isaac Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12708\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12708\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12708 \" title=\"Sir Isaac Brock\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/sirisaacbrock.jpg\" alt=\"Sir Isaac Brock?\" width=\"288\" height=\"162\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sir Isaac Brock?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ever wonder what Sir Isaac Brock really looked like? A new display outside the Learning Commons examines that exact question.<\/p>\n<p>The display at the south entrance in the Thistle hallway examines Brock from a physical standpoint. There are only two surviving pieces of artwork of Brock created in his lifetime, and there\u2019s no evidence that he posed for either.<\/p>\n<p>One display case examines the multiple looks of Brock since his death on Oct. 13, 1812, including the flattering image of \u201cThe Hero of Upper Canada.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The second exhibit shows a more realistic examination of Brock, which Canadian artist <a href=\"www.christiancorbet.com\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Corbet<\/a> created using forensic data. Corbet is currently working on a sculpture bust of Brock for the Isle of Guernsey.<\/p>\n<p>The display is available until Oct. 14. After that, it will be on exhibit in <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/library\/collections\/special-collections-archives\" target=\"_blank\">Special Collections and Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder what Sir Isaac Brock really looked like? A new display outside the Learning Commons looks at that exact question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[24,138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12709,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12707\/revisions\/12709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}