1585 Domenico Fontana (1543/1607)
Originally one of thirty fountains in the garden of the Villa Peretti Montalto destroyed for the construction of the Termini train station and moved here
It is called the Fountain of the Prisoner for a statuary group with Apollo, Venus, Aesculapius and a prisoner originally placed in the niche of the fountain and lost except for the headless body of Aesculapius placed now above the fountain
Originally the fountain was fed by the Acqua Felice, now by the Acqua Paola
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