Monday, December 30, 2013

FOUNTAIN OF THE UGLY BOAT

FONTANA DELLA BARCACCIA
1629 by Pietro Bernini (1562/1629) helped by his son Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598/1680) for Urban VIII Barberini (1623/44) in memory of the flood of the Tiber in 1598
The low water pressure available, which could only supply a very low fountain generated the original idea of the half sunken boat

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