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Midnight in Rome... one of the "talking statues" Il Babuino fountain... Looks like you’re alone, and just light rustle of waterstreams and no other sounds surrounding you... But don’t be so sure, old stones are coming to life and ancient Gods overhearing you...
Much better viewed large on black View On Black
Chos sku monastery The monks of ChökuChos sku (4850 m) report that their monastery was founded circa 1250 CE by a disciple of Gyelwa Götsangpa-Rgyal ba rgod tshang pa named Sanggyé Nyenpo-Sangs rgyas gnyan po. The current assembly hall (dükhang’dus khang) and protector chapel (tsenkhangbtsan khang) were rebuilt in the same place as their pre-modern predecessors. This Drugpa Kagyü’brug pa bka’ brgyud monastery is renowned for its talking statue of Chöku PakpaChos sku ’phags pa, which was once a protector of the Buddhist kings of GugéGu ge. This sacred image is said to have been brought from India to the monastery with the aid of the wily god Gang Ri LhatsenGangs ri lha btsan. Extensive monastic ruins are found on the slopes below the ChökuChos sku monastery. At this lower site there were at least one dozen sizable buildings and a number of smaller ones as well. The size of the rooms and characteristic constructional features of the structures demonstrate that most if not all were made with timber roofs. In aggregate, these ruins constitute a much larger monumental presence than that of the contemporary monastery. These lower structures are somewhat susceptible to rockslides originating from the couloir above and this may have had something to do with their abandonment. Cultural luminaries such as Sherap ZangpoShes rab bzang po (the head lama of sag thil monastery in GertséSger rtse) report that a large contingent of monks inhabited these ruins some 800 years ago. The monks of ChökuChos sku say that the 19th century CE lama Padma DegyelPadma bde rgyal reoccupied some of the structures below their monastery with his many followers. Also below Chöku-Chos sku monastery there are a series of caves in the cliffs, the most famous of which is Langchen Puk-Glang chen phug (Elephant Cave). Guru Rinpoché-Gu ru rin po che is supposed to have meditated in this cave. Langchen Puk-Glang chen phug is 6 m in length and has several collateral chambers. Two other caves in the vicinity associated with Guru Rinpoché-Gu ru rin po che are Chöpuk-Chos phug (Buddhism Cave) and Padma Puk-Padma phug (Lotus Cave). Another cave, Khyung Puk-Khyung phug (located below the Guru Drupchu-Gu ru sgrub chu spring), is thought to have a self-formed Khyung-khyung (horned eagle) on the ceiling. རས་ཆེན་ཕུག་དང་གཉན་པོ་རི་རྫོང་། ras chen phug dang gnyan po ri rdzong > Rechen Puk Dang Nyenpori Dzong - Mighty Mountain Fortress/ མྱང་པོ་རི་རྫོང་། myang po ri rdzong - Nyangpori Dzong Read more: places.thlib.org/features/iframe/16648#ixzz1mdDJ7Cyp
Excellent fruit and veg stalls in Bedford: the statue of John Howard looks on, I hope approvingly.
"John Howard (1726-1790) was a philanthropist, High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and prison reformer, who wrote the first detailed survey of prison conditions in Britain" ... from Talking Statues Bedford website.
After all, a statue comes to life in Don Giovanni.
There is a tradition of talking statues in Rome, so with a little imagination, why not Mozart in Vienna.
One might ask: " Maestro. What did you think of The Magic Flute last night at the Statsoper.? I saw it once there. you know."
"Did you? Well, sometimes they get it right. Schikenader and I had quite a time way back in 1791, getting it off the ground. But we had our little jokes, too. And the public really turned out. They really do it differently nowadays. But people come from all over. Imagine someone coming from the New World or Russia, both to be in it and to see it. If only they could hear what I was planning to write next...."
Celebrating Kensington Garden’s famous fictional resident, the bronze statue features Peter Pan surrounded by squirrels, rabbits, mice and fairies.
You can find the Peter Pan statue to the west of the Long Water, in the same spot as Peter lands his bird-nest boat in the story, ‘The Little White Bird.’
Peter Pan creator and local resident JM Barrie was inspired by Kensington Gardens. He commissioned Sir George Frampton to build the statue which has been a favourite feature of the gardens since 1912.
Bring the Peter Pan statue magically to life with your smartphone, as part of Talking Statues. Simply swipe your phone on the nearby plaque and get a personal call-back from Peter Pan.
A recent project at Peter Pan is now complete and Peter Pan re-opened on Wednesday 1st May - 107 years to the day that it was first unveiled in 1912.
This involved:
restoring the Grade II* Peter Pan statue and its surrounding
enhancing the landscape setting creating a garden that evokes the 'magic' of Peter Pan
improving access for less able park visitors
improving the visibility and prominence of the statue from across the Long Water and the wider landscape of Kensington Gardens.
www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/kensington-gardens/things-to-...
You can find the Peter Pan statue to the west of the Long Water, in the same spot as Peter lands his bird-nest boat in the story, 'The Little White Bird.'
Peter Pan creator and local resident JM Barrie was inspired by Kensington Gardens. Hel commissioned Sir George Frampton to build the statue which has been a favourite feature of the gardens since 1912.
Bring the Peter Pan statue magically to life with your smartphone, as part of Talking Statues. Simply swipe your phone on the nearby plaque and get a personal call-back from Peter Pan.
A recent project at Peter Pan is now complete and Peter Pan re-opened on Wednesday 1st May - 107 years to the day that it was first unveiled in 1912.
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This is the fountain Marforio - known as one of the talking statues of Rome (a habit in Rome that began in the 16th century when notes with witticisms or critique of leading persons and things like that were attached to certain statues in the city. The first one of these were Pasquino and replies to notes on him was sometimes posted here on Marforio making him somewhat of a conversation partner to the other statue).
Marforio dates to the first century A.D. and is a river god (the Tiber?), or perhaps Oceanus (he was first identified as Jupiter or Neptune). The name is also a bit debated - it could come from "mare in foro" (the sea in the forum" which was found on an inscription near this piece, or from Martis Forum where it was discovered, or from the Marioli family (also known as the Marfuoli family) on whose land it stood until 1588.
In 1588 the pope Sixtus V had it moved to Piazza San Marco and in 1592 it was moved to its present location and incorporated in the fountain by Giacomo Della Porta. When Palazzo Nuovo was built in 1645 the fountain got enclosed and is now sitting in a small courtyard.
Madama Lucrezia is one of the five "talking statues" of Rome. In the 16th century, people posted beside the statues "pasquinades" — irreverent satires poking fun at public figures — written as if spoken by the statue.
Celebrating Kensington Garden’s famous fictional resident, the bronze statue features Peter Pan surrounded by squirrels, rabbits, mice and fairies.
You can find the Peter Pan statue to the west of the Long Water, in the same spot as Peter lands his bird-nest boat in the story, ‘The Little White Bird.’
Peter Pan creator and local resident JM Barrie was inspired by Kensington Gardens. He commissioned Sir George Frampton to build the statue which has been a favourite feature of the gardens since 1912.
Bring the Peter Pan statue magically to life with your smartphone, as part of Talking Statues. Simply swipe your phone on the nearby plaque and get a personal call-back from Peter Pan.
A recent project at Peter Pan is now complete and Peter Pan re-opened on Wednesday 1st May - 107 years to the day that it was first unveiled in 1912.
This involved:
restoring the Grade II* Peter Pan statue and its surrounding
enhancing the landscape setting creating a garden that evokes the 'magic' of Peter Pan
improving access for less able park visitors
improving the visibility and prominence of the statue from across the Long Water and the wider landscape of Kensington Gardens.
www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/kensington-gardens/things-to-...
Babuino is one of the talking statues of Rome, Italy. The fountain is situated in front of the Canova Tadolini Museum, in via del Babuino. ~ Wikipedia
One of the 'Talking Statues' situated in Broadgate. City of London
Get your Smart Phone App out and listen to Maisie Williams talking about....No, not herself or Game of Thrones !
Broadgate. City of London. UK
5 reasons why I prefer taking pictures of statues over people:
1. Statues never complain about being fat or ugly.
2. Statues don't complain that they don't look good on pictures.
3. Statues don't get tired.
4. Statues don't get impatient when you take the time to get the perfect shot.
5. Statues don't talk.
Statues rock, people suck. ;-)
Press L please!
I used the tripod, no priest into the church :-))
San Marco is a basilica in Rome dedicated to St. Mark located in the small Piazza di San Marco adjoining Piazza Venezia. It was built in 336 by Pope Mark and rebuilt in 833 by Pope Gregory IV.
In 336, Pope Mark built a church devoted to one of the Evangelists, his name bearer St. Mark, in a place called ad Pallacinas. The church is thus recorded as Titulus Marci in the 499 synod of Pope Symmachus.
After a restoration in 792 by Pope Adrian I, the church was rebuilt by Pope Gregory IV in 833.
Madama Lucrezia is one of the "talking statues" of Rome, and is located next to the basilica entrance. It was once the bust of a statue of the goddess Isis, to whom a temple was dedicated in Rome not far from its current location.
Besides the addition of a Romanesque belltower in 1154, the major change in the architecture of the church was ordered by Pope Paul II in 1465-70, when the inside and the outside of the church were restyled according to the Renaissance taste. On that occasion the church was assigned to the Venetian people living in Rome, Paul II being a Venetian of birth.
The last major reworking of the basilica was started in 1654-57 and completed by Cardinal Angelo Maria Quirini in 1735-50. With these restorations, the church received its current Baroque decoration.
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The façade (1466) was built with marbles taken from the Colosseum and the Theatre of Marcellus, and is attributed to Leon Battista Alberti.
The inside is clearly Baroque. However, the basilica shows noteworthy elements of all her millenary history:
the apse mosaics, dating back to Pope Gregory, show the pope, with the squared halo of a living person, offering a model of the church to Christ, in the presence of Mark the Evangelist, Pope Saint Mark and other saints;
the wooden ceiling, with the emblem of Pope Paul II, is one of only two original 15th century wooden ceilings in Rome, together with the one at Santa Maria Maggiore;
the tomb of Leonardo Pesaro (1796) by Antonio Canova.
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You can find the Peter Pan statue to the west of the Long Water, in the same spot as Peter lands his bird-nest boat in the story, 'The Little White Bird.'
Peter Pan creator and local resident JM Barrie was inspired by Kensington Gardens. Hel commissioned Sir George Frampton to build the statue which has been a favourite feature of the gardens since 1912.
Bring the Peter Pan statue magically to life with your smartphone, as part of Talking Statues. Simply swipe your phone on the nearby plaque and get a personal call-back from Peter Pan.
A recent project at Peter Pan is now complete and Peter Pan re-opened on Wednesday 1st May - 107 years to the day that it was first unveiled in 1912.
These messages were posted next to the Pasquino statue, one of the remaining 'talking statues' in Rome. By custom/tradition, the talking statues provide a venue for the expression of anonymous ideas/thoughts/messages/declarations.
The ones in English include "Call Me By Your Name Trip" and "I love Rome" (both near the middle).
Rome; July 2019
This giant talking statue depicts Paul Bunyan, America's larger-than-life logger from the turn of the century. Klamath is located in the center of the Redwood forests of California. Print size 8x10 inches.
Il Babuino is one of the talking statues of Rome, Italy.
The talking statues of Rome or the Congregation of Wits (Congrega degli arguti) provided an outlet for a form of anonymous political expression in Rome. Criticisms in the form of poems or witticisms were posted on well-known statues in Rome, as an early instance of bulletin board. It began in the 16th century and continues to the present day.
PLEASE, no multi invitations in your comments. DO NOT FEEL YOU HAVE TO COMMENT.Thanks
It was getting dark and I had to get back to the Vatican to catch my shuttle ride, I just came across this by mistake and because I had done research before I had left Canada knew what it was.
The statue Pasquino, the first talking statue of Rome. It provided an outlet for a form of anonymous political expression. Criticisms in the form of poems or witticisms were posted on the statue. It began in the 16th century and continues to the present day.
Celebrating Kensington Garden’s famous fictional resident, the bronze statue features Peter Pan surrounded by squirrels, rabbits, mice and fairies.
You can find the Peter Pan statue to the west of the Long Water, in the same spot as Peter lands his bird-nest boat in the story, ‘The Little White Bird.’
Peter Pan creator and local resident JM Barrie was inspired by Kensington Gardens. He commissioned Sir George Frampton to build the statue which has been a favourite feature of the gardens since 1912.
Bring the Peter Pan statue magically to life with your smartphone, as part of Talking Statues. Simply swipe your phone on the nearby plaque and get a personal call-back from Peter Pan.
A recent project at Peter Pan is now complete and Peter Pan re-opened on Wednesday 1st May - 107 years to the day that it was first unveiled in 1912.
This involved:
restoring the Grade II* Peter Pan statue and its surrounding
enhancing the landscape setting creating a garden that evokes the 'magic' of Peter Pan
improving access for less able park visitors
improving the visibility and prominence of the statue from across the Long Water and the wider landscape of Kensington Gardens.
www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/kensington-gardens/things-to-...
I purchased these playing cards on eBay. Happy Chef was a chain of around 50 family restaurants in the Midwest. The restaurants were known for the trademark, talking statues in front of the restaurant. I worked at the McPherson, Kansas, Happy Chef in 1997. It closed for good in 1999 and is now La Fiesta. This photo was taken with my Canon Rebel T5.
Rome, September 2015
One of the so-called "talking statues" of Rome, Madama Lucrezia (named after Lucrezia d'Alagno, the mistress of Alfonso V of Aragon, who once owned the statue) originally represented the goddess Isis, or one of her priestesses.
Rome, September 2015
Marforio, dating from the 1st century CE, is one of the famous so-called "talking statues" of Rome. It was discovered with a granite basin bearing the inscription "mare in foro", but the statue may as well take its name from the Latin name for the area in which it was discovered (Martis Forum), or from the Marioli, or Marfuoli, family who owned property near the Mamertine Prison, also near the forum, where the statue was situated until 1588.
"Il Gobbo di Rialto (the Hunchback of the Rialto) is a marble statue of a hunchback found opposite the church of San Giacomo di Rialto at the end of the Rialto in Venice. Sculpted by Pietro da Salò in 1541, the statue presents a crouching, naked hunchback supporting a small flight of steps. It was used as a podium for official proclamations.
In the Middle Ages it was also the finishing point for punishment for thieves and other minor offenders; the guilty party would be stripped naked (other sources only mention that they were barefoot) and made to run the gauntlet between two rows of citizens lining the streets from Piazza San Marco to Rialto, who whipped and insulted them. Exhausted, humiliated, they were happy that the ordeal was over, and embraced and kissed the statue.
By the 19th century, time had taken its toll on the statue. In 1836, it was restored with funds provided by the civic authorities.
It is said to communicate with the Pasquino, one of the talking statues of Rome. From the early 16th century, the Pasquino, a statue of a torso, was used as an agent for critical commentaries against the pope and the authorities. Satirical notes would be attached anonymously to the base of the statue purporting to come from the Pasquino himself. Other statues in Rome would be used to fulfill a similar purpose and establish a dialogue. In the 17th century, the Pasquino exchanged correspondence with Il Gobbo concerning the Republic of Venice, Pope Paul V and the writings of Cardinals Baronio and Bellarmino."
Venice. 2014
Come i romani ben sanno, Pasquino è la più famosa “statua parlante” di Roma.
Conosciamo prima la statua.
Frammento di un antica opera di stile ellenistico, ahimè mutilata degli arti e danneggiata nel volto. Si trova nel rione Parione, nella vecchia piazza Parione, attualmente piazza Pasquino, posizionata all’angolo del palazzo Breschi, così come volle l’ex proprietario, il cardinale Oliviero Carafa. Era suo infatti, il palazzo dove venne ritrovata la statua nel 1501.
Lo scultore Antigonos (si pensa sia lui l’autore), raffigurò il corpo di Menelao che sorregge quello di Patroclo morente, anche se qualcun altro sostiene sia Aiace con il corpo di Achille, altri ancora invece Ercole che combatte con i centauri… ma nessuno può dirlo.
Incerto è anche il perché di questo nome “Pasquino”. Anche su questo le teorie sono molte, la più plausibile è la seguente: nel 1556 un certo Nicolò Franco (detto Pasquino), fu accusato dall’allora papa Pio V, delle cosiddette “pasquinate” e condannato alla forca.
Cosa sono in realtà le “pasquinate”?
Tutto iniziò intorno al 1400. Il potere della chiesa portava non poco malumore al popolo di Roma, vogliosa di più libertà. Fatto sta che di notte, ai piedi della statua, venivano appesi dei fogli satirici in versi rimati. L’obiettivo era quello di pungere i personaggi importanti di allora, ma soprattutto indirizzate alla chiesa e al papa.
Col tempo, la satira diventava sempre più feroce, sempre più pungente. Tanto che il popolo con ansia attendeva ogni giorno una pasquinata, ma la chiesa era terrorizzata da questa attesa. Già, la chiesa aveva paura. Pasquino era la voce del popolo, il malcontento popolare nei confronti del potere, era il riepilogo di ciò che la gente avrebbe voluto ma non poteva farlo. Roma era già piena di “ribelli” e aveva paura che queste satire potessero animare una rivoluzione.
Addirittura ci furono papi che fecero sorvegliare la statua notte e giorno, nella speranza di acciuffare il famoso Pasquino, come fece Benedetto XIII, creando però l’effetto di numerose altre pasquinate ai piedi d’altre statue. Adriano VI invece pensò bene di gettare la statua nel Tevere, fortunatamente ci ripensò. Ma in molti emanarono editti che precisavano la condanna a morte di Pasquino, una volta arrestato. Il caso vuole che per quasi cinquecento anni, Pasquino non fu mai trovato.
Una leggenda dice che il primo Pasquino del 1400, tramandò la satira ad un ragazzo fidato e di idee simili. Da allora, ogni vero Pasquino ha lasciato un suo successore, in modo segreto ovviamente, per ben cinque secoli. Si dice anche che l’ultimo vero Pasquino fu il poeta Gioacchino Belli, che non contento di rimanere nell’anonimato, decise di pubblicare i versi sotto forma di poesie, bloccando così la “dinastia” dei Pasquino. Se ciò è vero è un mistero, non fu un caso però che dalla pubblicazione delle poesie del Belli, i foglietti ai piedi della statua non si videro più.
Purtroppo non esistono attualmente ricordi di molte pasquinate, la più famosa forse è quella che contestava il pontefice Sisto V:
"Fra tutti quelli c'hanno avuto er posto
De vicarj de Dio, nun z'e mai visto
Un papa rugantino, un papa tosto,
Un papa matto, uguale a Papa Sisto.
E nun zolo è da dì che dassi er pisto
A chiunqu'omo che j'annava accosto,
Ma nu la perdonò neppur'a Cristo
E nemmanco lo roppe d'anniscosto.
Aringrazziam'Iddio c'adesso er guasto
Nun pò ssuccede ppiù che vienghi un fusto
D'arimette la Chiesa in quel'incrasto.
Perché nu ce pò èsse tanto presto
Un antro papa che je piji er gusto
De méttese pe nome Sisto Sesto".
Dalla breccia di Porta Pia, non ci sono state più pasquinate degne di nota. Tranne due. Quella che venne affissa durante i preparativi della visita di Hitler a Roma, in cui la città fu ricoperta di carton gesso:
"Povera Roma mia de travertino!
T'hanno vestita tutta de cartone
pè fatte rimirà da 'n'imbianchino..."
L’ultima fu quella affissa in occasione della prima visita a Roma dell’ex presidente russo Gorbaciov:
"La perestrojka nun se magna
da du' ggiorni ce manna a pedagna
sarebbe er caso de smammà
ce cominceno a girà".
Adesso io mi chiedo: nel tempo d’oggi, in mezzo a gente che niente ricorda e che a niente da importanza, che fine avrà fatto Pasquino?
This is Pasquino, Rome's first talking statue - one of several sites where, in the 16th century, written criticisms of political figures were posted - in the form of poems or short prose pieces.
For more, try Wikipedia, or....
If all shopping malls had special effects and fireballs, there'd be a lot fewer bored husbands in the world. The Fall of Atlantis show inside the Forum Shops at Caesars is an animatronic display of fire, water and nine-foot-tall talking statues.
The story is set in the kingdom of Atlantis, when King Atlas has to decide which of his bratty kids will rule the throne. Your sibling rivalry doesn't even come close to these two fit-throwers. Sure, you may have fought over toys, food or even listened in on each other's phone calls, but this feud is pretty fierce.
In the end, the family learns the ultimate lesson -- let's just say it doesn't result in a "time-out." While we'd normally hate to spoil the ending, it can get pretty crowded and a little hard to understand what's going on. Don't worry if you can't hear what the characters are saying, it's more fun to narrate the story yourself with a couple of drunk buddies.
It's a free show, and while there are some pretty cool features like heat and sound waves, there are a few hokey ones too. The costumes and props were created by the same geniuses who worked on Thor and Pirates of the Caribbean and there's also a 20-foot winged dragon. Let's be honest, you just don’t see that every day.
The show plays every hour on the hour, starting at 11 a.m. While you're there, check out the 50,000-gallon aquarium nearby. There are more than 300 saltwater fish that will have you fighting the urge to sing "just keep swimming."
Vega.com
Madama Lucrezia (Romanesco: Madama Lugrezzia) is one of the five "talking statues" of Rome. Pasquinades — irreverent satires poking fun at public figures — were posted beside each of the statues from the 16th century onwards, written as if spoken by the statue, largely in answer to the verses posted at the sculpture called "Pasquino" Madama Lucrezia was the only female "talking statue", and was the subject of competing verses by Pasquin and Marforio.
Madama Lucrezia is a colossal Roman bust, about 3 metres high, sited on a plinth in the corner of a piazza between the Palazzo Venezia and the basilica of St. Mark. The statue is badly disfigured, and the original subject cannot be identified with certainty, but may represent the Egyptian goddess Isis (or of a priestess of Isis), or perhaps a portrait of the Roman empress Faustina. The bust was given to Lucrezia d'Alagno, the lover of Alfonso d'Aragona, King of Naples; she moved to Rome after Alfonso's death in 1458.
Text from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madama_Lucrezia
Celebrating Kensington Garden’s famous fictional resident, the bronze statue features Peter Pan surrounded by squirrels, rabbits, mice and fairies.
You can find the Peter Pan statue to the west of the Long Water, in the same spot as Peter lands his bird-nest boat in the story, ‘The Little White Bird.’
Peter Pan creator and local resident JM Barrie was inspired by Kensington Gardens. He commissioned Sir George Frampton to build the statue which has been a favourite feature of the gardens since 1912.
Bring the Peter Pan statue magically to life with your smartphone, as part of Talking Statues. Simply swipe your phone on the nearby plaque and get a personal call-back from Peter Pan.
A recent project at Peter Pan is now complete and Peter Pan re-opened on Wednesday 1st May - 107 years to the day that it was first unveiled in 1912.
This involved:
restoring the Grade II* Peter Pan statue and its surrounding
enhancing the landscape setting creating a garden that evokes the 'magic' of Peter Pan
improving access for less able park visitors
improving the visibility and prominence of the statue from across the Long Water and the wider landscape of Kensington Gardens.
www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/kensington-gardens/things-to-...
post processed in photoshop cs6,
non b&w is also uploaded, do check it aswell.
clicked with nikon d3200.
Statue of renowned Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) between platform 8 and 9 at London Paddington Station in (West) London (UK).
The present day Paddington Station was designed and built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1854 although the station first opened in 1838.
Note this is a talking statue. Just press the button on the plinth..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Paddington_station
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel
All my Brunel's www.flickr.com/photos/stuart166axe/tags/isambardkingdombrunel
All my statues www.flickr.com/photos/stuart166axe/tags/statue
Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
This huge statue has been known as Marforio since the twelfth century. The name probably derives from its original location, which in medieval times was thought to have been a "Forum of Mars" (Martis Forum), in the area between the Roman Forum and the Imperial Forums.
The statue is more than six meters (nearly twenty feet)
long. It probably represents the personification of Ocean, the god who reigned over all the world's waters, and dates from the second or third century A.D.
The statue was moved to Piazza del Campidoglio in 1592. Here it was given a new function as part of a fountain in an architectural setting designed by Giacomo Della Porta.
For centuries, Marforio was a "talking statue," like Pasquino, Madama Lucrezia and Abate Luigi, ancient sculptures on which discontented citizens used to post anonymous complaints or invectives against the authorities. (Pasquino was the most famous of the lot). The origin of its name is a matter of some debate. It was discovered with a granite basin bearing the inscription mare in foro, but may take its name from the Latin name for the area in which it was discovered (Martis Forum), or from the Marioli (or Marfuoli) family who owned property near the Mamertine Prison, also near the forum, where the statue was sat until 1588.
When the Palazzo Nuovo was built, the Marforio Fountain became a feature of the courtyard of the newest palace on the Capitoline Hill (1644). When this building was transformed into the Capitoline Museum (1733), the fountain and the architectural perspective were revised by architect Filippo Barigioni, and the statue of Marforio was restored once again, this time by the Roman sculptor Carlo Antonio Napolioni.
Between September 2012 and February 2013, the ancient statue and the fountain, with its water supply and original water features, were restored. The fountain is now fully functional once again.
Musei Capitolini, Rome