{"id":38498,"date":"2019-10-24T03:26:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T09:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/?p=38498"},"modified":"2019-01-04T23:36:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T06:36:12","slug":"pic-of-the-week-october-25-2019-remembering-leonardo-piazza-della-scala-milan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/pic-of-the-week-october-25-2019-remembering-leonardo-piazza-della-scala-milan\/","title":{"rendered":"“Pic of the Week”, October 25, 2019: Remembering Leonardo, Piazza della Scala, Milan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just north of Milan’s Duomo and the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is a popular park known as Piazza della Scala, named for the city’s famous Teatro alla Scala opera house directly opposite this piazza. It’s a place of space and refuge in a busy and crowded area of the city. Other buildings on the Piazza include Palazzo Marino (Milan’s city hall) and Palazzo della Banca Commerciale Italiana.<\/p>\n

To me the most interesting feature of the square was situated at its center, where a thoughtful monument of Leonardo da Vinci sits. It was crafted by sculptor Pietro Magni (1872). Milan was Leonardo’s home for much of his early adult life — likely the most productive in his life — and the city proudly remembers it’s adopted son.<\/p>\n

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Just north of Milan’s Duomo and the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is a popular park known as Piazza della Scala, named for the city’s famous Teatro alla Scala opera house directly opposite this piazza. It’s a place of space and refuge … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[11,14,69],"tags":[1665,1664,1666],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38498"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38498"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38510,"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38498\/revisions\/38510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}