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TRITONE FOUNTAIN BY BERNINI |
"HISTORY
and BARBERINI SQUARE"
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TRITON
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DOLPHINS |
Triton
Fountain is to us one of the most beautiful fountain made by Bernini
in Rome. It's right in the middle of Barberini Square very close
to the omonimous Palace surely worthy of a visit for its collection
of paintings. Benini projected it in 1642 for his patron Pope Urbano
VIII Barberini. In the middle of the fountain four dolphins support
with their tails two valves of a scallop shell on which a kneeling
triton, god of sea Neptune's son, who blows water through a shell
held up in his hands.
The jet of water once was higher and more impressive that today.
On the dolphins also visible is the papal tiara and the other symbol
of Barberini's family: the bees. Surely the aim of Bernini was the
dynamism that here is reached through the representation of a gesture,
the act of blowing of the Triton, and his impressive but agile muscle
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