Piazza Navona - Table of Contents .............. Architecture Around the World
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Fountain of the Moor (Fontana del Moro)
Southern end of the Piazza Navona, Rome, Italy
| Fountain erected: |
1576 |
| 1576 architect: | Giacomo della Porto |
| Style: |
Baroque |
| Name origin: |
Center triton riding a dolphin resembles a "Moor" (African) |
| Statuary: |
1576 - Four Tritons sculpted by Giacomo della Porta. 1653 - A Moor, or African, or Ethiopian, wrestling with a dolphin sculpted by Gian Lorenzo Bernini was added in 1874 during a restoration of the fountain, |
| Current location of original statues: |
During a restoration in 1874, the original sculptures were moved to the Villa Borghese and substitute copies were made and are still on the fountain. |
 Piazza Navona is a popular destination for photographers.  Bernini's Moor wrestling a dolphin.   Detail - The Moor  Two of four tritons in the fountain. Triton was a god of the sea, son
of Poseidon and Amphitrite, portrayed as having the head and trunk of a
man and the tail of a fish ("merman"), and holding a trumpet made from
a conch shell which he blew like a trumpet to calm or raise the waves.
Tritons were a race of sea gods and goddesses born from Triton.
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