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The Quattro Fontane [1] (the Four Fountains) is an ensemble of four Late Renaissance fountains located at the intersection of Via delle Quattro Fontane and Via del Quirinale in Rome. They were commissioned by Pope Sixtus V and built at the direction of Muzio Mattei, and were installed between 1588 and 1593.
View of the Palazzo Barberini with the second theatre at the left, labelled "4. Teatro da Comedie", 1699 etching by Alessandro Specchi. The Teatro delle Quattro Fontane ('Theatre of the Four Fountains'), also known as the Teatro Barberini, was an opera theatre in Rome, Italy, designed (in part) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and built in 1632 by the Barberini family. [1]
The fountain, at the junction of three roads (tre vie), [3] marks the terminal point [4] of the "modern" Acqua Vergine —the revived Aqua Virgo, one of the aqueducts that supplied water to ancient Rome. In 19 BC, supposedly with the help of a virgin, Roman technicians located a source of pure water some 13 km (8.1 mi) from the city.
Iowa State University Museum curator Sydney Marshall gets ready to re-install the Maidens on the “Fountain of the Four Seasons” in front of the Memorial Union on Monday, Aug. 4, 2024, in Ames ...
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.
The church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (Saint Charles at the Four Fountains), also called San Carlino, is a Roman Catholic church in Rome, Italy.The church was designed by the architect Francesco Borromini and it was his first independent commission.
Marcel Duchamp Fountain, 1917, photograph by Alfred Stieglitz at 291 art gallery following the 1917 Society of Independent Artists exhibit, with entry tag visible. The backdrop is The Warriors by Marsden Hartley. [1] Fountain is a readymade sculpture by Marcel Duchamp in 1917, consisting of a porcelain urinal signed "R. Mutt".
This room was also bomb damaged then partially restored from stucco fragments. The paintings have been attributed to the Vetii workshop. [5] Triclinium fresco of the marriage of Telamon and Hesione. Room "h", a spacious triclinium, still retains much of its frescoes, although fragmentary. Two panels of images are painted continuously around the ...