{"id":2211565,"date":"2025-12-25T03:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T03:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2211565"},"modified":"2025-12-25T03:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T03:42:13","slug":"the-statue-of-mary-giving-birth-that-was-beheaded-crowning-2024-by-esther-straus-art-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-statue-of-mary-giving-birth-that-was-beheaded-crowning-2024-by-esther-straus-art-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"The Statue of Mary Giving Birth That Was Beheaded | Crowning (2024) by Esther Strau\u00df #art #statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5_R6tM4Wswk?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The creator of Crowning, Esther Strau\u00df, explained: \u201cThere are two figures of Mary in the eight-meter-long cathedral crib; the first one is kneeling with folded hands next to her child, the second one is carrying it on her lap. I add a third Mary who is giving birth to the child the two other figures are taking care of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statue quickly faced criticism, with a petition calling for its removal, arguing that it disregards \u201cthe birth of Christ, one of the central mysteries of the Christian faith,\u201d and noting that artists have avoided depicting Mary in labor for the past 2,000 years.<\/p>\n<p>The episcopal vicar for education, art, and culture in the Linz diocese, Rev. Johann Hintermaier, condemned the beheading:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew this installation would provoke debate. If it hurt people\u2019s religious feelings, we are sorry, but I strongly condemn this violent act of destruction, the refusal to engage in dialogue, and the attack on the freedom of art,\u201d the diocesan statement quoted him as saying.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5_R6tM4Wswk\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creator of Crowning, Esther Strau\u00df, explained: \u201cThere are two figures of Mary in the eight-meter-long cathedral crib; the first one is kneeling with folded hands next to her child, the second one is carrying it on her lap. I add a third Mary who is giving birth to the child the two other figures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2211566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766634132_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2211565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2211567,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211565\/revisions\/2211567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2211566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2211565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2211565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2211565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}