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The Trevi Fountain (Italian: Fontana di Trevi) is an 18th-century fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and ...
A. Schiavo, The Trevi Fountain and other works of Nicola Salvi, Rome 1956 P. Portuguese, Nicola Salvi, in Baroque Rome, Rome 1973 E. Kieven, Nicola Salvi and Luigi Vanvitelli at Rome, in 'Luigi Vanvitelli and his circle, edited by C. De Seta, Naples, 2000, p. 53-78
The son of Giuseppe Lotario, Duke Stefano Conti, completed these renovations, including demolishing the central portion of the building, before 1730 to allow for the building of the Trevi Fountain. [2] The new Baroque style south facade of the building was commissioned by Nicola Salvi in 1731. [3] He hired the architect, Luigi Vanvitelli.
Rome's world-famous Trevi Fountain has re-opened after a three-month restoration. Built in the 18th Century by Italian architect Nicola Salvi on the façade of the Poli Palace, the historic ...
Oceanus (or Neptune) of the Trevi Fountain. Pietro Bracci (June 16, 1700 [1] –1773) was an Italian sculptor working in the Late Baroque manner. He is best known for carving the marble sculpture of Oceanus at the center of Rome's Trevi Fountain, based on a plaster modello by Giovanni Battista Maini. [1]
As visitors' coins splash into Rome's majestic Trevi Fountain carrying wishes for love, good health or a return to the Eternal City, they provide practical help to people the tourists will never meet.
Rome’s iconic Trevi Fountain reopened Sunday after three months of renovations, just in time for the inauguration of the 2025 Jubilee Holy Year that is expected to draw millions of visitors. To ...
His brother Giuseppe Pannini (Rome, 1720–1812) was an architect and archaeologist [2] [4] who in 1762 completed the construction of the Trevi Fountain. [5] The brothers worked together at different stages of their careers, as some of Francesco's drawings attest.