{"id":194,"date":"2017-11-06T18:51:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T18:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/siena\/?p=194"},"modified":"2017-11-06T18:51:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T18:51:58","slug":"visit-biccherna-siena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/siena\/2017\/11\/06\/visit-biccherna-siena\/","title":{"rendered":"A visit to the &#8220;Biccherna&#8221; in Siena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the 12th century till 1682, \u00a0every year the city of Siena commissioned the best local artists to paint covers for the \u00a0annual city financial records. Known as the &#8220;Biccherna&#8221;, these hand-painted tablets have been preserved and are displayed in the city archives in glass cabinets \u00a0along with rooms filled with shelves snd shelves of the records themselves.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/siena\/files\/2017\/10\/IMG_7564-e1509993991196-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3020\/files\/2017\/10\/IMG_7564-e1509993991196-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3020\/files\/2017\/10\/IMG_7564-e1509993991196-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Everyone was awed by the artwork, the records, and the space itself.<\/h3>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-91\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/siena\/files\/2017\/10\/IMG_7505-e1509994115135-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3020\/files\/2017\/10\/IMG_7505-e1509994115135-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3020\/files\/2017\/10\/IMG_7505-e1509994115135-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_92\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-92\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/siena\/files\/2017\/10\/IMG_7524-e1509994075333-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3020\/files\/2017\/10\/IMG_7524-e1509994075333-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3020\/files\/2017\/10\/IMG_7524-e1509994075333-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the original Biccherna intact.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the 12th century till 1682, \u00a0every year the city of Siena commissioned the best local artists to paint covers for the \u00a0annual city financial records. Known as the &#8220;Biccherna&#8221;, these hand-painted tablets have been preserved and are displayed in the city archives in glass cabinets \u00a0along with rooms filled with shelves snd shelves of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/siena\/2017\/11\/06\/visit-biccherna-siena\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A visit to the &#8220;Biccherna&#8221; in Siena&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/siena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/siena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/siena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/siena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/siena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/siena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/siena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/siena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/siena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/siena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}