The Trevi Fountain
The Trevi Fountain (Italian: Fontana di Trevi) is the largest — standing 25.9 meters (85 feet) high and 19.8 meters (65 feet) wide — and most ambitious of the…
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Quattro Fontane
The four fountains are of travertine and represent two rivers and two virtues. They are all by Fontana except that one which is placed across the grille in the…
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Triton Fountain
The Triton Fountain by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, in Piazza Barberini, Rome
Executed of travertine in 1642/43, an over-lifesize muscular Triton, a…
The Triton Fountain by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, in Piazza Barberini, Rome
Executed of travertine in 1642/43, an over-lifesize muscular Triton, a…
The Quirinale hill used to be called Montecavallo (Horse Hill) due to the presence of the large marble statues of the Dioscuri twins and their horses. The twins…
The majestic fontana-mostra of Paola, also known as "fontanone of Gianicolo," was commissioned by Pope Paul V Borghese (1605-1621), designed by John Fontana and…
