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. |