{"id":1302,"date":"2010-01-14T09:30:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T14:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2014-01-15T15:48:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T21:48:19","slug":"come-to-our-open-house-putti-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2010\/01\/14\/come-to-our-open-house-putti-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Come to our Open House Putti Party!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=1137\">As our loyal readers know<\/a>, in 1905, W.C. Putnam generously donated to our library a reproduction of a frieze designed by Donatello in the 1400s.<\/p>\n<p>The frieze, which hung in the library\u2019s auditorium for decades, was removed when the original Carnegie building was razed in 1966.\u00a0 The frieze lived in the Blackhawk Hotel until last year, when it finally returned to us and was installed in our Special Collections Center.<\/p>\n<p>In order to celebrate the homecoming of our thirty-two dancing cherubs (also known, in Italy, as putti), we would like to invite everyone to an open house in our Special Collections Center at the Main Street Library on Thursday, January 21, from 5-7pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Gluba will begin the festivities with a talk about the significance of the frieze and there will be a running\u00a0photo presentation\u00a0showing how this twenty-four foot piece of art was moved, cleaned, and reassembled.\u00a0 \u00a0Light refreshments will also be served.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, we\u00a0have been sternly\u00a0advised that we will <em>not<\/em> be\u00a0creating a living representation of the frieze and dancing the conga through our stacks.<\/p>\n<p>But won\u2019t you please join us anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As our loyal readers know, in 1905, W.C. Putnam generously donated to our library a reproduction of a frieze designed by Donatello in the 1400s. The frieze, which hung in the library\u2019s auditorium for decades, was removed when the original &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2010\/01\/14\/come-to-our-open-house-putti-party\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[58,176,174,175],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library","category-local-history","tag-blackhawk-hotel","tag-carnegie-library","tag-frieze","tag-w-c-putnam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXc-l0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/1609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}