{"id":116,"date":"2017-04-18T20:34:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T00:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/?p=116"},"modified":"2017-04-18T20:35:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T00:35:38","slug":"monument-to-vittorio-emmanuelle-secondo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/rome\/monument-to-vittorio-emmanuelle-secondo\/","title":{"rendered":"Monument to Vittorio Emmanuelle Secondo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-118\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2017\/04\/IMG_0561-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2017\/04\/IMG_0561-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2017\/04\/IMG_0561-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2017\/04\/IMG_0561-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2017\/04\/IMG_0561-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-119\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2017\/04\/IMG_0417-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2017\/04\/IMG_0417-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2017\/04\/IMG_0417-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2017\/04\/IMG_0417-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2017\/04\/IMG_0417-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-120\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2017\/04\/IMG_0560-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2017\/04\/IMG_0560-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2017\/04\/IMG_0560-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2017\/04\/IMG_0560-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2017\/04\/IMG_0560-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-121\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2017\/04\/IMG_0562-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2017\/04\/IMG_0562-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2017\/04\/IMG_0562-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2017\/04\/IMG_0562-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/129\/2017\/04\/IMG_0562-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This dazzling monument (1885-1925) on the Piazza Venezia is dedicated to Vittorio Emanuele II, the first king of a united Italy. The monument not only celebrates the king but also the unification of Italy as one nation and signals its future destiny for greatness.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">King Emanuele dominates a central position in the monument, commemorated with a bronze equestrian sculture seated on a decorated marble pedestal. The pedestal\u2019s decorations feature fourteen female allegorical representations of the fourteen aristocratic cities that came under the control of the king with the unification of Italy in 1871. The monument also includes sixteen allegorical sculptures of the different regions in Italy \u2014 an allusion to the ancient tradition of provincial allegorical representations common in roman monuments. Furthermore, the equestrian sculpture\u2014an homage to great generals\u2014also originated in the ancient world. Of course, the monument itself is built in a highly classical style, with its use of marble as building material, inclusion of a great colonnade, and overall structural resemblance to ancient sanctuaries. These invocations of Italy\u2019s ancient past were meant to foretell the fate of a unified Italy\u2014legacy to the Roman Empire and a future destined to greatness.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This dazzling monument (1885-1925) on the Piazza Venezia is dedicated to Vittorio Emanuele II, the first king of a united Italy. The monument not only celebrates the king but also the unification of Italy as one nation and signals its future destiny for greatness.\u00a0King Emanuele dominates a central position in the monument, commemorated with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-rome","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/visualizing-rome-visions-of-rome-2107\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}