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Creator
Date
[1651]
Location
Roma [Italy]
Rome, Italy
Rome, Italy
Media format
Image
Extent
1 print
Language
Italian
Size
500 x 381 mm
Genre
Art
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 255277
Folger call number: DELETE THIS RECORD
Folger holdings ID: 336175
Folger call number: DELETE THIS RECORD
Folger holdings ID: 336175
Summary
Depicts a fountain in the middle of a city square crowded with people on foot and in horse-drawn carriages. The fountain is round with a rocky centerpiece on which larger than life human and animal figures are seated, including a horse and a snake. Rising from the center is a tall obelisk carved with hieroglyphics, atop which a bird with a branch in its mouth is perched. A plaque on the obelisk reads: "Innocentius Decimus P.M. natali domo Pamphilia..."
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Also known as
Extended title: Obelisco Panphilio gia nell Ippodromo di Ant. Caracalla ... inalzato dalla ... Innocentio Decimo sopra il nouo fonte nel Cerchio Agonale hora Piazza Nauona con li quattro fiumi ... architettura del caualier Gio. Lorenzo Bernino ... scoperta li 12 di giugnio, 1651 Louis Rouhier, sculpsit
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printmaker: Rouhier, Louis, active 1650
artist: Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680
publisher: Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de, 1627-1691
publisher: Pecci Blunt, Anna Laetitia, 1885-1971
artist: Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680
publisher: Rossi, Giovanni Giacomo de, 1627-1691
publisher: Pecci Blunt, Anna Laetitia, 1885-1971