{"id":310505,"date":"2024-08-09T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/what-to-see\/sabbioneta-ancient-theater-2\/"},"modified":"2024-09-15T23:54:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T21:54:14","slug":"sabbioneta-ancient-theater","status":"publish","type":"what-to-see","link":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/what-to-see\/sabbioneta-ancient-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vincenzo Scamozzi, after having built the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, in May 1588 arrived in Sabbioneta and designed the court theater, built between 1588 and 1590.<br \/>Jewel of rare beauty, built from nothing and not bound by pre-existing structures, the theater plays a role of primary importance in the context of European theatrical buildings.<br \/> In the loggia at the twelve Corinthian order columns are placed as many stucco statues depicting the gods of Olympus.<br \/>Outside the theater, then, to witness the love that Gonzaga nurtured for Rome and the Roman world, we find the inscription in capitals &#8220;<span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">ROMA QVANTA FVIT IPSA RVINA DOCET<\/span>&#8221; (how great Rome bears witness to its own ruin). The building was inaugurated on the occasion of the 1590 Carnival celebrations.<br \/>The current fixed scene, mounted in 1996, replaces the original Scamozzi destroyed in the eighteenth century.<\/p>\n<p>Today it is home to concerts, conferences and cultural events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ancient Theater of Sabbioneta, or Olympic Theater, is a rare jewel created by Vincenzo Scamozzi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":237471,"template":"","village-conntection":[51012],"what-to-see-region-and-provinces":[76159,76166],"what-to-see-category":[34211],"class_list":["post-310505","what-to-see","type-what-to-see","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","village-conntection-sabbioneta-it","what-to-see-region-and-provinces-lombardia-en","what-to-see-region-and-provinces-mantua","what-to-see-category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see\/310505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/what-to-see"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see\/310505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"village-conntection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village-conntection?post=310505"},{"taxonomy":"what-to-see-region-and-provinces","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see-region-and-provinces?post=310505"},{"taxonomy":"what-to-see-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see-category?post=310505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}