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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.
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1648-51); detail of the River Ganges Fountain in front of Villa Medici on the Pincio This is a list of the notable fountains in Rome , Italy. Rome has fifty monumental fountains and hundreds of smaller fountains, over 2000 fountains in all, more than any other city in the world.
Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome 1630 Sculpture Marble Life-size 27 [33] Self-Portrait as a Mature Man (Bernini) [Wikidata] Uffizi, Florence 1630–1635 Painting Oil on canvas 62 cm × 46 cm (24.4 in × 18.1 in) NA [34] Saint Longinus: St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City 1631–1638 Sculpture Marble Height 440 cm (174 in) 28 [35]
Bernini’s fountains were inspired by those in Florence that featured fictional characters. [9] With the restoration of Fontana del Moro, he removed the original balustrade and added another basin around the original one. [1] Bernini’s original design for the new centerpiece featured three fish with tails up, and a water-spouting shell being ...
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.
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.
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.