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 structure.
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