Fountains

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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 Mascherone at via Giulia – poetic beauty enchanted in stone

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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

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Fontane on Piazza Farnese – ancient baths in the service of the Farnese family

Sleeping Hermaphrodite – the ever-present third gender

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Sleeping Hermaphrodite – the ever-present third gender

The figure of the Hermaphrodite stimulated the imagination of the people of Antiquity in a particular way. A being of two genders – both female and male – seemed privileged exceptional, and completely ideal, however, it also aroused ambivalent feelings and suspicion. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that a figure with male genitalia and female breasts garnered a lot of attention both in literature as well as in the visual arts. When it comes to the latter, the favored topic (although not the only one), was a sleeping Hermaphrodite. This is how he is depicted, stretched on b...

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Simon Vouet’s Herodias with the Head of St. John the Baptist – femme fatale of the Baroque

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Simon Vouet’s Herodias with the Head of St. John the Baptist – femme fatale of the Baroque

Femme fatale is associated with painting and literature of the XIX century – with women who devoured the hearts of men, cold-blooded demons of sex who with premeditation led men to their downfall. However, beautiful, erotic, attractive, but at the same time ruthless and sophisticated women have always fascinated artists. We can find them in ancient literature and mythology, as well as in the Old and New Testaments. We can also see them in the painting creations of Caravaggio and his successors because it was exactly in the XVII century when Salome, Judith, and Herodias became fashionable...

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Spada Chapel – ancestors, meaning capital which cannot be underestimated

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Spada Chapel – ancestors, meaning capital which cannot be underestimated

Numerous posthumous chapels, which we can see during a pilgrimage through Roman churches are generally filled with decorations and works of art. They arouse our respect, and approval, and let our thoughts linger on the grandeur and significance of the family, but above all their sense of art. It is quite seldom that we think about them in purely practical categories, not to say mercantile. It is a rare situation indeed that we can say that the main motive of their creation was not only the desire to immortalize one’s fame, but also the prestige of future, yet unborn successors of the fam...

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