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the bees I want to go to Italy. Who has not imagined being in the Trevi Fountain, throw a mo currency and make a wish? The source is located at the junction of three roads (tre vie) marks the end point of the Aqua Virgo (Italian: Acqua Vergine), one of the ancient aqueducts that supplied water to Rome. In 19 a. C., allegedly with the help of a virgin, Roman technicians located a source of pure water only 22 km from the city (current scene on the front of the source). This Aqua Virgo aqueduct ran along the shorter of Rome into the Baths of Agrippa and was used for over four years. The coup de grace to the urban life of late classical Rome was the breaking of the aqueducts by the besieging Goths. Medieval Romans were reduced to drawing water from polluted wells and the Tiber River, which was also used as a sewer.
The Roman custom of building a handsome fountain at the end of the aqueducts that brought water to Rome was revived in the fifteenth century, with the Renaissance. In 1453, Pope Nicholas V finished mending the Acqua Vergine aqueduct and built a simple basin, designed by the humanist architect Leon Battista Alberti, to announce the arrival of water.
current source Custom design and construction In 1625 Pope Urban VIII, finding the earlier fountain insufficiently dramatic, asked Bernini to outline possible renovations, but the project was abandoned when the Pope died. Bernini's lasting contribution was to change the supply situation across the square to stay in front of the Quirinal Palace (so the Pope could look down and enjoy it). Though Bernini's project was torn down for Salvi's fountain, there are many touches in the fountain as it was built. There is also a striking and influential former model made by Pietro da Cortona.
Competitions had become the rage during the Baroque to redesign buildings, fountains and even the Plaza of Spain. In 1730, Pope Clement XII organized a contest the source in which Nicola Salvi lost, despite which it received the request. [1] Work began in 1732 and ended in 1762, long after Clement's death, when Pietro Bracci's 'Neptune' was set in the central niche. The statues of Abundance and Health, in the two side niches were carved by Filippo Della Valle [2].
Salvi died in 1751, with his work half finished, but first make sure that the ugly signs of a stubborn barber not spoil the ensemble, hiding it behind a sculpted vase. The Trevi Fountain was completed in 1762 by Giuseppe Pannini, who substituted the present allegories for soft sculptures of Agrippa and Trivia flat, the Roman goddess. Restoration
The fountain was restored in 1998: the stone was cleaned and installed closed circuit pumps and oxidizers.
Iconography The backdrop of the fountain is the Palazzo Poli, which gives a new facade with a giant order of Corinthian pilasters that link the two floors. Taming the waters is the theme of the giant project that extends forward, mixing water and rockwork, to fill the little square. Two Tritons guide the shell-shaped chariot of Neptune, taming two separate sea horses.
In the center is superimposed a robustly triumphal arch modeling. The recess or central exedra framing Neptune has free-standing columns for better light and shadow. In the niches flanking Neptune, Abundance spills water from her urn and Health holds a cup from which a snake drinks. Above, bas reliefs illustrate the Roman origin of the aqueducts.
The tritons and horses provide symmetrical balance, with the maximum contrast in their pose and layout (for 1730 the Rococo had flourished in France and Germany).
The custom of throwing coins Following the film Three coins in the fountain, there is an urban legend among those who do not know that the three coins were thrown by three different people, whereby lucky toss coins with your right hand over his left shoulder in the Trevi Fountain.
actually flipping a coin says he does return to Rome, two fall in love with a beautiful Roman (or Roman) and three to marry her (or him) in Rome.
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