{"id":2689,"date":"2012-01-07T11:54:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T16:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vermontartguide.com\/content\/?p=392"},"modified":"2012-01-07T11:54:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T16:54:08","slug":"samuel-de-champlain-sculpture-burlington-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermontartguide.com\/content\/samuel-de-champlain-sculpture-burlington-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel de Champlain Sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-806\" title=\"Samuel-de-Champlain-Sculpture-by-Jim-Sardonis-10\" src=\"http:\/\/vermontartguide.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-de-Champlain-Sculpture-by-Jim-Sardonis-101.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermontartguide.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-de-Champlain-Sculpture-by-Jim-Sardonis-101.jpg 400w, https:\/\/vermontartguide.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-de-Champlain-Sculpture-by-Jim-Sardonis-101-300x452.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>by Molly Maguire<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Samuel de Champlain<br \/>\nArtist: Jim Sardonis<br \/>\nLocation: Champlain College Campus, Burlington<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps best know for\u00a0<em>Reverence<\/em>, the two whales tails off of Interstate 89 in South Burlington, artist Jim Sardonis provides another addition to local public sculpture with his interpretation of Samuel de Champlain in bronze. \u00a0The piece commemorates the 400th anniversary of the French explorer\u2019s arrival in the Lake Champlain region. He founded Quebec City in 1608 and became the namesake for Burlington\u2019s much loved lake. \u00a0The bronze figure was commissioned in Summer 2009 by Champlain College Trustee Emeritus John W. Heisse, Jr. M.D. and unveiled as a part of the Lake Champlain Quadricentennial celebration. \u00a0It now stands in the Rozendaal Courtyard on the campus of Champlain College. Sardonis\u2019 sculpture avoids the overly formal tendencies of public statues, in favor of a more casual depiction of the man to whom Burlington and surrounding cities owe so much of their history. Champlain surveys the water through a telescope, bare-chested and kneeling westward toward the lake atop his granite pedestal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Champlain College, Rozendaal Courtyard<\/strong><br \/>\nBehind the Hauke Family Campus Center, S.D. Ireland Family Center for Global Business and Technology, and Alumni Auditorium<br \/>\nAccessible from South Willard and Maple Streets, Burlington 05401<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Sardonis&#8217; 2009 piece commissioned by Champlain College commemorates the 400th anniversary of the French explorer\u2019s arrival in the Lake Champlain region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vermontartguide.com\/content\/samuel-de-champlain-sculpture-burlington-2\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[30,95,31,96,159],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/vermontartguide.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-de-Champlain-Sculpture-by-Jim-Sardonis-101.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4SHp1-Hn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":392,"url":"https:\/\/vermontartguide.com\/content\/samuel-de-champlain-sculpture-burlington\/","url_meta":{"origin":2689,"position":0},"title":"Samuel de Champlain Sculpture, Burlington","date":"February 7, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Jim Sardonis' 2009 piece commissioned by Champlain College commemorates the 400th anniversary of the French explorer\u2019s arrival in the Lake Champlain region.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Public Art&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vermontartguide.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-de-Champlain-Sculpture-by-Jim-Sardonis-11.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3234,"url":"https:\/\/vermontartguide.com\/content\/public-art-installed-at-echo-on-burlingtons-waterfront\/","url_meta":{"origin":2689,"position":1},"title":"Public Art Installed at ECHO on Burlington&#8217;s Waterfront","date":"July 7, 2016","format":"gallery","excerpt":"ECHO is\u00a0a science center and the public face of the Patrick and Marcelle Leahy Center for Lake Champlain, a 2.7 acre environmental campus on the Burlington Waterfront. 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