Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi

Image View Description

Exterior: View from South

Main Work
Piazza Navona
Creator
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (Italian sculptor, 1598-1680)
Material/Technique
  • marble
Work Type 2
sculpture
Style/Period
Baroque
Culture
Italian
Subject
Piazza Navona (Rome, Italy)
Location
Rome (Italy)
Notes

View from center of Piazza Navona. Sant’Agnese in Agone (1652), designed by Boromini to the left, with a head on view from South on the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (1651) of Bernini. Navona became public space in late 15th c., but transformed into a Baroque architectural and sculptural center in the reign of Innocent X in mid 17th c.

Image Source

Photography by Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History, Columbia University

Photographer
Gina Ciancone
Record ID
1213_rome2012_piazzanavona_vr_003
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