{"id":1488,"date":"2026-02-24T06:58:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/?page_id=1488"},"modified":"2026-02-24T07:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:15:32","slug":"poster-36","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/am\/exhibit\/poster-36\/","title":{"rendered":"poster-36"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1488\" class=\"elementor elementor-1488\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ffdb7d2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ffdb7d2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5551562 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5551562\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e762c9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1e762c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"569\" height=\"860\" src=\"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/damiano.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-1490\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/damiano.jpg 569w, https:\/\/shatranj.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/damiano-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/shatranj.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/damiano-8x12.jpg 8w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4488bb1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4488bb1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 data-path-to-node=\"0\">The Damiano Chess Set (c. 1512)<\/h3><p data-path-to-node=\"1\">Named after Pedro Damiano, the Portuguese apothecary who authored the influential 1512 manual Questo Libro e da Imparare Giocare a Scacchi, this set represents a significant transitional moment in chess design. The pieces bridge the gap between early symbolic forms and modern representation. While the Kings and Queens feature elegant turned tiers and the Knights are depicted as carved horse heads, the Rooks and Bishops still echo their medieval predecessors. Specifically, the Rook retains the abstract silhouette of the ancient war chariot, a form that would soon evolve into the modern castle tower.<\/p><p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Damiano\u2019s treatise was the first bestseller of the modern era, establishing fundamental standards such as the requirement for a white square to be on the player&#8217;s right. His timeless advice, &#8220;If you see a good move, find a better one,&#8221; reflects the intellectual depth he brought to the game. This set serves as a visual record of the 16th-century evolution that transformed ancient shatranj into the international sport of the modern world.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Damiano Chess Set (c. 1512) Named after Pedro Damiano, the Portuguese apothecary who authored the influential 1512 manual Questo Libro e da Imparare Giocare a Scacchi, this set represents a significant transitional moment in chess design. The pieces bridge the gap between early symbolic forms and modern representation. While the Kings and Queens feature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":743,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1488","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1488\/revisions\/1501"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shatranj.art\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}