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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 del Tritone (1642). Fountains of St. Peter's Square by Carlo Maderno (1614) and Bernini (1677). 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 ...
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 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 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 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.
4 [6] Bust of Giovanni Vigevano: Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome 1617–1618 Sculpture Marble Life-size 5 [7] Bust of Pope Paul V: Galleria Borghese, Rome 1618 Sculpture Marble Height 35 cm (14 in) 6 [8] Damned Soul: Palace of Spain, Rome 1619 Sculpture Marble Life-size 7 [9] Blessed Soul: Palace of Spain, Rome 1619 Sculpture Marble Life-size 7 [9]
At the end of the 17th century, the architect Carlo Fontana replaced Bernini's seashells with his own sculpted seashells facing inward. [4] Fontana di Piazza S.Maria in Trastevere. The fountain was completely rebuilt in 1873, following the design of Bernini and Fontana, but using less expensive materials.