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Fontana del Tritone (Triton Fountain) is a seventeenth-century fountain in Rome, by the Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini.Commissioned by his patron, Pope Urban VIII, the fountain is located in the Piazza Barberini, [1] near the entrance to the Palazzo Barberini (which now houses the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica) that Bernini helped to design and construct for the Barberini, Urban's ...
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers) is a fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy. It was designed in 1651 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Pope Innocent X whose family palace, the Palazzo Pamphili , faced onto the piazza as did the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone of which Innocent was the sponsor.
Bernini was chosen to restore both fountains, including the Southern one, which would become Fontana del Moro. [1] [8] Bernini had experience with creating nautical inspired artworks, such as Fontana del Tritone and Neptune and Triton. [9] Bernini’s fountains were inspired by those in Florence that featured fictional characters. [9]
Teofilo Rosse; Ferdinando Gabotto (1914), Storia di Torino (in Italian), Torino: Baravalle e Falconieri. v.1; Boccalatte et al., eds. Torino in guerra: 1940-1945 (Turin: Gribaudo, 1995) Bruno Maida, ed. Guerra e società nella provincia di Torino, 1940-1945 (Turin: Blu Edizioni, 2007)
The Fountain of the Tritons (Italian: Fontana dei Tritoni) is a fountain in Rome (), Piazza Bocca della Verità, in front of the basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin.This fountain should be distinguished from the similarly named nearby Triton Fountain (Fontana del Tritone) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, in the Piazza Barberini, with only a single Triton.
Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome 1635–1640 Sculpture Marble Over life-size 38 [47] Image, online [44] Bust of King Charles I (Bernini) Palace of Whitehall, London 1635–1640 Sculpture Marble 39 [48] Bust of Thomas Baker: Victoria and Albert Museum, London 1638 Sculpture Marble Height 82 cm (32 in) 40 [49] Medusa: Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome ...
The Fontana della Barcaccia (Italian: [barˈkattʃa]; "Fountain of the Boat") is a Baroque-style fountain found at the foot of the Spanish Steps in Rome's Piazza di Spagna (Spanish Square). Pope Urban VIII commissioned Pietro Bernini in 1623 to build the fountain as part of a prior Papal project to erect a fountain in every major piazza in Rome.
Fontana delle Api consists of a marble bi-valve shell with three bees of the same material resting on it. The fountain was intended to be a watering trough for horses. An inscription on the shell reads, "Urban VIII Pont. Max., having built a fountain for the public ornamentation of the City, also built this little fountain to be of service to private citizens.