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Neptune and Triton is an early sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It is housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum of London and was executed c. 1622–1623. Carved from marble , it stands 182.2 cm (71.7 in) in height.
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 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]
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.
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.
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Second, they were monuments to the papal patrons. Earlier Bernini fountains had been the Fountain of the Triton in Piazza Barberini, the Fountain of the Moor in the southern end of Piazza Navona erected during the Barberini papacy, and the Neptune and Triton for Villa Peretti Montalto, whose statuary now resides at Victoria and Albert Museum in ...
Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Neptune and Triton ; Artist: Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680) Alternative names: English: Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Gianlorenzo Bernini.