{"id":3526,"date":"2019-11-20T11:38:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T10:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2025-08-01T12:08:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T10:08:41","slug":"chimborazo-and-crocodile-wilhelm-and-alexander-von-humboldt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/2019\/11\/20\/chimborazo-and-crocodile-wilhelm-and-alexander-von-humboldt\/","title":{"rendered":"Chimborazo and Crocodile | Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chimborazo and Crocodile<\/h1>\n

David Blankenstein on the poster motif for the exhibition „Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt“<\/h3>\n

20 November 2019<\/span><\/p>\n

David Blankenstein, curator of the exhibition „Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt“<\/a>, explains which objects are hidden behind the exhibition poster with the Chimborazo and the crocodile and what significance they have for him.<\/p>\n

Watch the Video on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

Picture credits<\/h3>\n

Louis Bouquet, \u201eLe Chimborazo, vu depuis le Plateau de Tapia\u201c – Tafel XXV, Kupferstich, Detail, aus: Alexander v. Humboldt, \u201eVues des Cordill\u00e8res, et monumen\u200bs des peuples indig\u00e8nes de l’Am\u00e9rique\u201c, Paris 1810 \u00a9 bpk \/ Kunstbibliothek, SMB<\/span><\/p>\n

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Coccodrillo, Inv.no. 530, Marmor, Detail \u00a9 Governatorato SCV \u2013 Direzione dei Musei<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chimborazo and Crocodile<\/h2>\n

David Blankenstein, curator of the exhibition „Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt“, explains which objects are hidden behind the exhibition poster with the Chimborazo and the crocodile and what significance they have for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[1902,1900,113],"class_list":["post-3526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inside-dhm-en","tag-chimborazo-en","tag-crocodile","tag-humboldt-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3526"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10211,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions\/10211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}