Statues - Hither & Thither

 

Description

Marble statue of Guido holding his hand on the work he has left behind: the Antiphonary. On the pages of the book is an example of the music notation and a Latin text, from which Guido Monaco extracted the names for music notes: UT queant laxis / REsonare fibris / MIra gestorum / FAmuli tuorum / SOLve polluted / LAbii reatum / Sancte Iohannes. Subsequently, the note Ut was replaced by DO (by Dominus).
It stands on a marble cubic pedestal, with two bronze reliefs on its sides, and on the back side two emblems representing the Commune of Arezzo.

Guido as choir master of the children's choir of the Arezzo cathedral

Guido's death (?)

The bottom of the pedestal ends with a marble band in which the coats of arms of the regions of Italy.

Inscription(s)

A GUIDO MONACO 1882

Signature

Sculptor

• Salvino Salvini (Livorno 1824 - Arezzo 1899), Italian sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

• Wikipedia, Statua a Guido Monaco.
• Città di Arezzo, Scultura - Monumenti Celebri.
• Edoardo De Carli, Chi era Costui?

Tags

• Town: Arezzo
• Provincia: Arezzo (prov.)
• Regione: Toscana
• Country: Italy
• Choir
• Coat of arms
• Guido of Arezzo
• Musicologist
• Salvini, Salvino
• Statue (man)

Locatie (N 43°27'47" - E 11°52'41") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

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