Triton Fountain Rome Italy
by Joan Carroll
Title
Triton Fountain Rome Italy
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Photography And Digital Art
Description
The Fontana del Tritone (Triton Fountain) is a must-see during a visit to Rome Italy, or so I read. While it is a beautiful seventeenth-century fountain by the famed Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, I felt it was overshadowed by the teeming traffic, tall buildings, and movie posters around the crowded Piazza Barberini! Nevertheless, if you get up close and personal and study the details of the fountain, you can perhaps block out the hectic streets and honking horns! The fountain was commissioned by Bernini’s patron, Pope Urban VIII. Shown here is one of the dolphins at the base of the fountain, seemingly gulping in the water. In the upper left is one of the heraldic Barberini bees. This fountain was the first of Bernini's free-standing urban fountains, and was erected to provide water from the Acqua Felice aqueduct. At the Triton Fountain, Urban and Bernini brought the idea of a sculptural fountain, familiar from villa gardens, to a public urban setting for the first time; previous public fountains in the city of Rome had been passive basins for the reception of public water.
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