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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Quattro Fontane. 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.
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi: Piazza Navona, Rome 1648–1651 Fountain Travertine and marble 50 [63] Busts of Pope Innocent X - First version Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome 1650 Sculpture Marble 51a [64] Busts of Pope Innocent X - Second version Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome 1650 Sculpture Marble 51b Noli Me Tangere: Santi Domenico e Sisto, Rome 1650 ...
Busts of Cardinal Scipione Borghese. Two Busts of Cardinal Scipione Borghese are marble portrait sculptures executed by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1632. Cardinal Scipione Borghese was the nephew of Pope Paul V, and had commissioned other works from Bernini in the 1620s. Both versions of this portrait are in the Galleria Borghese ...