Rome's Fountain World

Rome is one of the best places on the planet. But you can hardly find it. sightseeingAs the main attractions take the fountains of Rome.

Today, the works of sculptors - fountain builders in Rome are all associated with the water element - a lake or a stream. Characters for their work were the heroes of ancient myths. Most of the plot compositions are based on playing religious symbols. The main characters of the fountains were sea deities, fish, dolphins, sea turtles and octopuses.

In the creation of man-made water springs directly involved such famous masters as Trevi, Bernini, Giovanni and Dominico Fontana, who later became muses for other creators.

The famous composer of the first third of the 20th century Ottorino Respighi under the influence of impressions from the fountains of the Eternal City created a symphonic poem “Fountains of Rome”. With the help of music, the master described the 4 most famous fountains of the city, starting with the dawn pastoral and finishing the square at sunset. According to the idea of the composer, the violin trill was to facilitate the transfer of dances of niyads and newts in splashes of water, permeated with sunlight.

The author of most of the fountains is the Jacobo della Porta. It is his creations that reflect the intensity of the dynamics of architectural masses and spatial solutions.

But, nevertheless, the main fountain builder of Roman fountains is recognized by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who worked on orders and under the direct leadership of Popes Innocent X, Urban VIII and Alexander VII. In his works, he praised each of them, despite the fact that money for future fountains was collected through taxes on wine and bread.

Fountains of Rome among immigrants of the USSR evokes from memory pictures from shops "Gifts of the Sea", which amazed our imagination in childhood. Wherever you go – in the park or square, in the garden or patio – everywhere you will meet Poseidons and Neptunes, naiads and newts, sturgeons and dolphins, cuttlefish and seahorses, not to mention lions, snakes, birds, lizards, crabs, turtles and shells. And from all sides flows, pours, drips, splashes, erupts, drips, erupts, gushes water from the Tiber River or other springs and reservoirs that have such romantic names as Bracchiano.

This cluster of figures arose due to the great variety of gods and heroes of the mythology of the ancient world, as well as the Baroque style, which is characterized by a splendor of forms. Fountains are one of the main victims of the reign of this style in Italy. Most of them were the result of the work of several authors. In this case, the author of the project was one person, made a sculptural composition by another, and the bowl of the fountain was created by a third.

Coming on holidayTake time to wander through the ancient streets, and to keep the impression of this unusual journey for a long time, buy a table fountain as a souvenir, in the form of a frozen sea figure.