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Oceanus (or Neptune) of the Trevi Fountain. Pietro Bracci (June 16, 1700 [1] –1773) was an Italian sculptor working in the Late Baroque manner. He is best known for carving the marble sculpture of Oceanus at the center of Rome's Trevi Fountain, based on a plaster modello by Giovanni Battista Maini. [1]
Not much is known of his career, but Giuseppe Panini is recognised as the architect having completed, in 1762, the construction of the Trevi Fountain after the death of Nicola Salvi, who made the initial design. [10] [11] High altar of the lost church of Sant'Isidoro in Rome, architect Joseph Pannini, engraving by Giuseppe Vasi (18th cent.)
A. Schiavo, The Trevi Fountain and other works of Nicola Salvi, Rome 1956 P. Portuguese, Nicola Salvi, in Baroque Rome, Rome 1973 E. Kieven, Nicola Salvi and Luigi Vanvitelli at Rome, in 'Luigi Vanvitelli and his circle, edited by C. De Seta, Naples, 2000, p. 53-78
Trevi is the 2nd rione of Rome, Italy, identified by the initials R. II, located in Municipio I.The origin of its name is not clear, but the most accepted theory is that it comes from the Latin trivium (meaning 'three streets'), because there were three streets all leading to the current Piazza dei Crociferi, a square next to the modern Trevi square.
He began the triumphant Baroque Trevi Fountain, one of the noted ornaments of Rome. Under his reign, a port was built at Ancona , with a highway that gave easy access to the interior. He drained the malarial marshes of the Chiana near Lake Trasimeno .The pope founded in 1732 the Italo-Albanian College Library of San Demetrio Corone in Calabria .
Maria Cristina Misiti, director of the National Institute of Graphics, had the idea to turn the building into a museum to help visitors learn more about the history of Rome and its inhabitants. [5] The Palazzo Poli houses the institute's collection of copper engraving plates dated from the sixteenth century to the present.
In 1809, when Rome was declared an Imperial city by Napoleon, Duke Luigi moved into the palace and was declared mayor. The Mussolini façade, 1934. The "SI" (Italian for "yes") refers to the 1934 Italian general election , which was a simple yes-no vote on the Fascist Party list.
This sculpture was moved in 1996 to the plaza adjacent to Arthur Ashe Stadium at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City. In 1983, Fredericks donated a casting of the work to his adopted home of Birmingham, Michigan for that city's fiftieth anniversary. It occupies a site in the city's Shain Park.