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Thursday, July 26, 2012

LA FONTANA DEL TRITONE di Bernini, Villa Mattei.

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 Fontana dell'Aquila attributed to Bernini - etching by Francesco Venturino; (right-above) Fontana del Tritone attributed to Bernini - etching by Francesco Venturino; (right-below) Fontana del Fiume
(right-above) Fontana del Tritone attributed to Bernini - etching by Francesco Venturino.

A Fountain by Bernini in the garden of Villa Mattei showed a TRITONE in a round basin. It was this fountain which prepared the way, in the mid-thirties, to a more ambitious wok of the same kind, the FONTANA DEL TRITONE in Roma.

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