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The composition of Bernini's Neptune and Triton consists of Neptune standing astride over Triton; Triton lies in sort of a "crouching" position; [a] the two figures mounted on a large half-shell, [14] [15] which serves as socle. [16] Neptune aims his trident seawards, [17] while Triton is blowing his conch. The conch was designed to spurt out ...
Gianlorenzo Bernini sculpted the "Neptune and Triton" fountain (1622–23) now in the Victoria and Albert Museum [82] [83] and the Triton Fountain (1642–43) in Bernini Square, Rome. [ 84 ] [ 85 ] There is differing opinion on what earlier works he may have drawn from near-contemporary works or examples from antiquity.
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Bernini was chosen to restore both fountains, including the Southern one, which would become Fontana del Moro. [1] [8] Bernini had experience with creating nautical inspired artworks, such as Fontana del Tritone and Neptune and Triton. [9] Bernini’s fountains were inspired by those in Florence that featured fictional characters. [9]
The Rape of Proserpina (Italian: Ratto di Proserpina), more accurately translated as The Abduction of Proserpina, [1] is a large Baroque marble group sculpture by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, executed between 1621 and 1622, when Bernini's career was in its early stage.
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 ...
Bernini had already been commissioned by Cardinal Montalto to create the Neptune and Triton fountain for his gardens at the Villa Montalto on the outskirts of Rome, and was involved in the commissioning of the David statue that eventually ended up in the Villa Borghese.