Fontana del Tritone, Rome
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Fontana del Tritone is a seventeenth-century fountain in Rome, by the Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Commissioned by his patron, Pope Urban VIII, the fountain is located in the Piazza Barberin
Fontana del Tritone by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Fontana del Tritone
Fontana del Tritone dolphins heads
Triton (mythology)
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Triton is a Greek god of the sea, the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite. Triton lived with his parents in a golden palace on the bottom of the sea. Later he is often depicted as having a conch shell he w
Fontana del Tritone, Rome
…a utility service to place in the center of the square dominated by his family's brand-new palace. At its centre rises a larger than lifesize muscular Triton, a minor sea god of ancient Greco-Roman legend, depicted as a merman kneeling on a large shell, from which the Triton rises. His head is thrown back…
Attic black-figure hydria, depicting Triton fought by Heracles.
Triton blowing a conch. Statue at Wasserspiele Hellbrunn, Hellbrunn Palace, Salzburg, Austria
Relief of Triton from a pillar in the Odeon of Agrippa in the Ancient Agora of Athens, Greece.
Attic black-figure hydria attributed to the Rycroft Painter, dating c. 520–c. 510 BCE, depicting Heracles wrestling Triton, Eskenazi Museum of Art