Showing posts with label Fontana della Barcaccia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fontana della Barcaccia. Show all posts

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