Seehausen´s Travels The World 2008 - 2015: Rom - 4 af 4

Vi er fortsat ved Pantheon

Vi er gået videre til Piazza Navona

Piazza Navona er en plads i det centrale Rom, Italien, opført på resterne af Domitianus' stadion fra 86 e.Kr. Ved pladsen kan man se barokkirken Sant'Agnese in Agone.

Midt på pladsen står Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (De fire floders fontæne), udført af Bernini (1651).

På Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi er der fire skuplturer, som hver repræsenterer sin verdensdel. Den første er Ganges der repræsenterer Asien, den næste er flodguden Nilen som repræsenterer Afrika. Man kan ikke se Nilen's ansigt, for da man byggede monumentet kendte man endnu ikke til Nilens kilder. Den tredje statue er Rio de la Plata som repræsenterer Amerika, og den sidste er Donau som repræsenterer Europa.

Alle havde sagt til os at vi skulle holde os fra at få mad og drikke ved de store pladser, vi blev alligevel fristet af at sidde og få kaffe og kage og se på mennesker

Fountain of Neptune

The Fontana del Nettuno (Fountain of Neptune) is a fountain in Rome, Italy, located at the north end of the Piazza Navona. It was once called "Fontana dei Calderari" because it was located close to a small alley with blacksmith's workshops, makers of pots and pans and of other metal based businesses, all of them generating heat.

The restoration of the Roman Aqua Virgo aqueduct in 1570 was immediately followed by the start of work on a continuation water supply pipe towards the district of the old Campo Marzio, which following the diminution of the city's size and importance was left as the most densely populated part of the city. Restoration of a piped water supply in turn permitted the construction of several public fountains. The basin of the Fontana del Nettuno, (without the sculptures) was designed in 1574 by Giacomo Della Porta, who was also responsible for the Moor Fountain at the other side of the square. It was sponsored by pope Gregory XIII. The lower part of the basin consists of white marble and the upper part of the local stone from Pietrasanta. For the next 300 years, the fountain survived without statues.

Nineteenth-century infrastructure developments reduced dependence on urban fountains for drinking and washing purposes but increased their visual and political importance, especially following the creation of the Italian state with Rome as its capital after 1870. The fountain as it exists today was finally completed in 1878 byAntonio della Bitta, who added the imposing sculpture of "Neptune fighting with an octopus", and Gregorio Zappalà, who created the other sculptures, based on the mythological theme of the "Nereids with cupids and walruses". This statuary was added following a competition in 1873, in order to balance that of the Moor Fountainon the south side of the piazza and of the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers) at its centre.

Fountain of Four Rivers

Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi ("de fire floders fontæne") er en fontæne på Piazza Navona i Rom, Italien.

Fontænen, som blev bestilt af pave Innocens X, afsløret i 1651 og er fremstillet af den italienske billedhugger Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini og flere af hans lærlinge og medhjælpere. I midten af fontænen står en egyptisk obelisk, som tidligere har stået på Circus Maxentius ved Via Appia. På toppen af obelisken er placeret en fredsdue med en olivengren. De fire flodguder repræsenterer de fire verdensdele, som pavestaten var aktiv i: Donau i Europa, Nilen i Afrika, Ganges i Asien og Río de la Plata i Amerika (både syd og nord).

Bernini formgav fontænens udseende og udførte blandt andet selve klippeformationen og nogle mindre figurer, men overlod skulpturerne af de fire flodguder til sine elever. Donau blev udført af Antonio Raggi, Nilen af Giacomo Fancelli, Ganges af Claude Poussin og Río de la Plata af Francesco Baratta.

Fontana del Moro (Moor Fountain) is a fountain located at the southern end of the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy. It represents a Moor, or African (perhaps originally meant to beNeptune), standing in a conch shell, wrestling with a dolphin, surrounded by four Tritons. It is placed in a basin of rose-colored marble.

The fountain was originally designed by Giacomo della Porta in 1575 with the dolphin and four Tritons. In 1653, the statue of the Moor, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, was added. In 1874, during a restoration of the fountain, the original statues were moved to the Galleria Borghese and replaced with copies.

In September 2011, the fountain was damaged after a vandal attacked it with a hammer. The vandal also damaged the Trevi Fountain that night