The Fountain of the Four Rivers Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi Rome Italy
by Wayne Moran
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The Fountain of the Four Rivers Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi Rome Italy
Artist
Wayne Moran
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Photograph - Fine Art Photography
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The Fountain of the Four Rivers Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi Rome Italy
The Fountain of the Four Rivers
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.
The base of the fountain is a basin from the centre of which travertine rocks rise to support four river gods and above them, a copy of an Egyptian obelisk surmounted with the Pamphili family emblem of a dove with an olive twig. Collectively, they represent four major rivers of the four continents through which papal authority had spread: the Nile representing Africa, the Danube representing Europe, the Ganges representing Asia, and the Río de la Plata representing the Americas.
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Al Bourassa
I miss Rome... VLF Merry Christmas.
Wayne Moran replied:
Rome is Fabulous. Thank you so very kindly my friend! All the best to you and yours!