TRITONE FOUNTAIN BY BERNINI |
"HISTORY
and BARBERINI SQUARE"
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TRITON
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DOLPHINS |
Triton
Fountain is to us one of the most beautiful fountain made by Bernini
in Rome. It's right in the middle of Barberini Square very close
to the omonimous Palace surely worthy of a visit for its collection
of paintings. Benini projected it in 1642 for his patron Pope
Urbano VIII Barberini. In the middle of the fountain four dolphins
support with their tails two valves of a scallop shell on which
a kneeling triton, god of sea Neptune's son, who blows water through
a shell held up in his hands. The jet of water once was higher
and more impressive that today. On the dolphins also visible is
the papal tiara and the other symbol of Barberini's family: the
bees. Surely the aim of Bernini was the dynamism that here is
reached through the representation of a gesture, the act of blowing
of the Triton, and his impressive but agile muscle structure.
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