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Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Piazza Navona, Roma.
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Blue Wildebeest at Four Rivers, Okavango Delta, Botswana
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L'immagine riprende un particolare della Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (1648-1651), opera dello scultore Gian Lorenzo Bernini. La fontana è al centro di piazza Navona, meta immancabile di una gita o un viaggio a Roma.
Fu commissionata dal papa Innocenzo X e si trova di fronte alla chiesa di Sant'Agnese in Agone, opera di F.Borromini.
La fontana è sovrastata dall'obelisco di Domiziano e rappresenta le personificazioni di Quattro Fiumi: Nilo, Gange, Rio de La Plata, Danubio.
(In foto dettaglio del Danubio)
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My favorite fountain in Rome is Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Four Rivers Fountain in Piazza Navona. The fountain has carvings of four river gods representing the four quarters of the world. Our apartment was only a ten minute walk from here, so I was able to visit the piazza different times throughout the day. Obviously, I think the best time to visit is at dusk when the weather is cooler and the lights are illuminated.
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
The most famous square of Baroque Rome stands on the site of Domitian’s stadium and the name seems to derive from a popular corruption of the term for the competitive games “in agone” which were held here. From the times of Domitian on, the place was used almost exclusively for sports events, including the famous August regatta in which the participants wore the colours of the nobles and the civic clergy. Even now the feast of the Befana (January sixth) is celebrated there with a typical market.
But the real attraction of the square is the famous Fountain of the Four Rivers by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, dated 1651, and thanks to which the artist gained the admiration and protection of the Pope then in office, Innocent X. The rivers represented in the fountain are the Danube, the Ganges, the Nile and the Rio de la Plata. They are arranged on a steep rocky reef from which a Roman obelisk taken from the Circus of Maxentius daringly rises up into the air.
Popular tradition has it that the sculptures on the fountain symbolize the rivalry between Bernini and Borromini, who were the most important artists in 17th century Rome. Innocent X at first had commissioned the work to Borromini, but Bernini obtained the commission by “corrupting” Donna Olimpia, the pope’s sister-in-law (he gave her a silver copy of the project).
Borromini built the church of Sant’Agnese in Agone, which stands in front of Bernini’s Fountain. For this reason the personified Rivers seem to cover their faces, not to see Borromini’s “horrible” work.
In line with the Fountain of the Four Rivers are the Fountain of the Moor, in front of the Palazzo Pamphilij and the Fountain of Neptune, formerly of the Calderari, at the northern end of the square.
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
This magnificent 'parish' church is in the Piazza Navona, once the Emperor Domitian's arena. The Egyptian obelisk is atop the Four Rivers fountain, with all three of the fountains in the piazza boarded up for repair.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
The centerpiece of Rome's beautiful Navona Square is the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers), one of the most famous fountains in the Eternal City.
It was built in the mid 17th century after a design by Bernini.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the god of Argentina’s Río de la Plata, representing the Americas, Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome. Bernini’s sculpture group supports an Egyptian obelisk brought to Rome by Domitian and erected at the Temples of Isis and Serapis in the Campus Martius, later transferred to the Circus of Maxentius on the Appian Way.
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©2016 Patrick J Bayens
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Bernini's 'Four Rivers' fountain in the Piazza Navona, Rome.
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
©2011 Patrick J Bayens
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), 1651, Piazza Navona, Rome, commission by Pope Innocent X
Piazza Novona, Rome, The Fountain Of The Four Rivers by Bernini - As featured in the Ron Howard movie "Angels & Demons"
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