{"id":1674,"date":"2024-05-16T11:34:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T09:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2024-07-26T11:37:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T09:37:30","slug":"monument-to-antonio-vivaldi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/blog\/2024\/05\/16\/monument-to-antonio-vivaldi\/","title":{"rendered":"Monument to Antonio Vivaldi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/Vivaldi-101-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/Vivaldi-101-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/Vivaldi-101-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/Vivaldi-101-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/Vivaldi-101-1228x1536.jpg 1228w, https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/Vivaldi-101-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/Vivaldi-101.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/Vivaldi-100-820x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/Vivaldi-100-820x1024.jpg 820w, https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/Vivaldi-100-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/Vivaldi-100-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/Vivaldi-100.jpg 834w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2001 monument to Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) in the Votive Park next to the Votive Church made of Carrara marble by Italian sculptor Gianni Aric\u00f2 shows a group of figures with three female musicians, probably an allusion to Vivaldi&#8217;s teaching activities at the \u201cOspedale della Piet\u00e0\u201d in Venice, formerly an orphanage for girls, where he gave young women access to the concert business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In front of it is an inclined plate with a metal relief and a portrait of the famous Venetian-Italian baroque composer and violinist, who was also ordained as a Roman Catholic priest at the age of 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initiators of the monument &#8211; the Vienna and Venice Lions Club &#8211; wanted to create a symbol of international understanding between Italy and Austria as well as a reminder of Vivaldi&#8217;s move to Vienna in 1740, where he died just 10 months after his arrival, unnoticed by the music world, and was buried in the B\u00fcrgerspital cemetery in front of the former city wall on today&#8217;s Karlsplatz, which is also commemorated by a memorial plaque.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2001 monument to Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) in the Votive Park next to the Votive Church made of Carrara marble by Italian sculptor Gianni Aric\u00f2 shows a group of figures with three female musicians, probably an allusion to Vivaldi&#8217;s teaching activities at the \u201cOspedale della Piet\u00e0\u201d in Venice, formerly an orphanage for girls, where he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-1090wien"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsrootsinvienna.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}