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Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi. 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.
Baroque sculpture often had multiple ideal viewing angles, and reflected a general continuation of the Renaissance move away from the relief to sculpture created in the round, and designed to be placed in the middle of a large space—elaborate fountains such as Gian Lorenzo Bernini‘s Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Rome, 1651), or those in the ...
Piazza Navona, Rome, Italy. Click on the map for a fullscreen view. Coordinates: 41°53′59.35″N 12°28′22.95″E / 41.8998194°N 12.4730417°E / 41.8998194; 12.4730417. The Fountain of Neptune (Italian: Fontana del Nettuno) is a fountain in Rome, Italy, located at the north end of the Piazza Navona. [1]
Obeliscus Pamphilius is a 1650 work by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher. It was published in Rome by Ludovico Grignani [1] and dedicated to Pope Innocent X in his jubilee year. [2]: 16 The subject of the work was Kircher's attempt to translate the hieroglyphs on the sides of an obelisk erected in the Piazza Navona.
Piazza Navona. Piazza Navona (pronounced [ˈpjattsa naˈvoːna]) is a public open space in Rome, Italy. It is built on the site of the 1st century AD Stadium of Domitian and follows the form of the open space of the stadium in an elongated oval. [1] The ancient Romans went there to watch the agones ("games"), and hence it was known as " Circus ...
The Quattro Fontane [1] (the Four Fountains) is an ensemble of four Late Renaissance fountains located at the intersection of Via delle Quattro Fontane and Via del Quirinale in Rome. They were commissioned by Pope Sixtus V and built at the direction of Muzio Mattei , and were installed between 1588 and 1593.
The 18th-century Trevi Fountain at night. 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.
The Papal Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls (Italian: Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura) is one of Rome 's four major papal basilicas, [ a ] along with the basilicas of Saint John in the Lateran, Saint Peter's, and Saint Mary Major, as well as one of the city’s Seven Pilgrim Churches. The basilica is the conventual church of ...