Trevi Fountain
Item
- Title
- Trevi Fountain
- Alternative Title
- Fontana di Trevi
- Creator
- Nicola Salvi (Italian architect, 1697-1751)
- Drafter
- Hibon, Auguste (French engraver and etcher, 1780-1857) and Durond
- City
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
- GPS
- 54.384042
- Location
- Italy
- Building Creation Date
- 1732-1762 (creation)
- Century
- 18th century
- Description
- front view of the fountain, exterior perspectives
- Its construction was extremely protracted, but as early as 1735 the architectural framework was complete, and by Salvi's death the ornamental rock formations and full-scale models of most of the sculpture were in place. The fountain is the most monumental water display in Rome and represents the culmination of a tradition of combining water and sculpture within an elaborate architectural setting. Salvi treated an existing façade of the Palazzo Poli as a nine-bay unit with the central three bays articulated with attached Corinthian columns suggesting an antique triumphal arch. The central bay is treated as a giant niche, which frames Maini's free-standing figure of Oceanus, from which the sculptural scheme and the waters of the fountain seem to flow into a large rock basin. An attic storey above the central niche is surmounted by a coat of arms of Clement XII and incorporates statues representing the Four Seasons, part of a complex iconographic scheme emphasizing the important role of water in nature.
- Techniques
- line drawings (drawings)
- Classification
- Architectural Documentation
- Documentation Type
- illustrations
- Style/Period
- Baroque
- Cultural Context
- Italian
- Subject
- allegorical
- architectural exteriors
- mythology (Classical)
- Architecture, Baroque
- Fountains
- Oceanus (Greek deity)
- capital: Corinthian
- pilaster: compound
- Source
- Letarouilly, Paul Marie. Edifices de Rome Moderne. Paris: A. Morel, 1868, 348.
- Access Rights
- Public Domain
- creator
- Salvi, Nicola
- Item sets
- Architecture Illustrations
Nicola Salvi (Italian architect, 1697-1751), “Trevi Fountain”, Texas Tech Arch Design Images -- Open Access Collections, accessed May 5, 2025, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/openarch/item/19039