Fountains

Fountains

Fontana dei Catecumeni – a café under the open sky

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Fontana dei Dioscuri – a monument of modern times put together with antique parts

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Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi – a symbol of greatness of the Catholic Church and the Pamphilj family

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Fontana del Mascherone di Santa Sabina – a charming, but undervalued Roman mascaron

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Fontana del Moro – African exoticism in the center of the city

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Fontana del Nettuno – a story of a water reservoir transformed into an elegant fountain

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Fontana del Prigione – but where is the prisoner?

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Fontana dell'Acqua Felice (Fontana del Mosè) – a camouflaged papal monument

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Fontana dell’Acqua Paola – a monument to the glory of Pope Paul V and the Borghese family

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Fontana della Rotonda – a work of papal ambitions and persistence

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Fontana della Terrina – from a litter bin to a gigantic soup bowl

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Fontana delle Amfore – a picturesque relict of Fascist times

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Fontana delle Tartarughe - meaning more haste less speed

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Fontana di Marforio – peregrinations of an ancient statue

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Fontana di Piazza Colonna – a grand idea and a rather modest implementation

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Fontana di Piazza Mastai – an old or a new fountain, here is the question

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Fontana di Trevi – a symbol of dolce vita and Rome’s greatest attraction

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Fontane di Piazza San Pietro – water fireworks at St. Peter’s Square

Crouching Venus – eavesdropped on for the last two thousand years

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Crouching Venus – eavesdropped on for the last two thousand years

When wandering the museum rooms of the Roman Palazzo Massimo we reach this place, we can be under the impression that we are surrounded by ancient gods and heroes, and each of them wants to attract our attention, stop us, and tell us their own story. We find ourselves among snow-white statues, which like actors play roles that only they are aware of. We can look at them from all sides, and admire their beautiful bodies and elegant gestures captured in stone. It is here that we will see the crouching Aphrodite as if surprised by our coming. Her face is only partially preserved. She is also miss...

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Michelangelo’s Nude Christ – miraculously duplicated

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Michelangelo’s Nude Christ – miraculously duplicated

Yes, miracles do happen, since that is what we can call the event that occurred over twenty years ago thanks to, two Italian art historians. In the sacristy of the Church of San Vincenzo Martire in the provincial town of Bassano Romano, seventy-two kilometers from Rome, they discovered something, which caused a veritable euphoria – a statue that had until then been considered the work of an unknown Baroque sculptor, turned out to be the forgotten work of Michelangelo.

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The Holy Family with St. Elizabeth, the Young St. John the Baptist, and an Angel – a family meeting with an angel in the background

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The Holy Family with St. Elizabeth, the Young St. John the Baptist, and an Angel – a family meeting with an angel in the background

The married couple of Mary and Joseph lean over their son in pious adoration, Mary’s aunt – Elizabeth (also a young mother) – is kneeling, holding her son John, who in the future will be given the nickname “the Baptist” and at the same time gently embraces her tiny relative – Jesus. He, with one hand, blesses his distant cousin, and with the other carefully touches the dove, that John is handing to him. The group is accompanied by an angel standing in the background, however, the viewer's eye focuses on the crib found in the foreground. It aroused such admir...

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