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John A. Pinto

The Trevi Fountain

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John A. Pinto

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00161.002

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Illustrations

Unless otherwise noted photographs were taken by the author. The abbreviation GFN stands for Gabinetto Fotografico Nazionale.

1. Trevi Fountain, general view with piazza (GFN)

2. Plan of the Campus Martius, after Lugli and Gismondi, Forma Urbis (Fototeca Unione)

3. Gemstone of Agrippa with nymphaeum on reverse, after Graevius, Thesaurus (American Academy in Rome, Library)

4. Map showing the course of the Aqua Virgo after Fabretti, De aquis, 1680 (Biblioteca Hertziana)

5. Conduit of the Aqua Virgo at Tor Sapienza (courtesy of Prof. L. Quilici)

6. Conduit of the Acqua Vergine behind the Trevi (GFN)

7. Plan of the urban aqueducts, after Piranesi, Antichità romane, 1756 (GFN)

8. Model of Rome in the reign of Constantine, showing the arcade of the Aqua Virgo (Fototeca Unione)

9. Arco del Nazareno, reconstruction, after Piranesi, Antichità romane, 1756 (Fototeca Unione)

10. Arco del Nazareno, view, after Piranesi, Campus Martius, 1762 (Fototeca Unione)

11. The Trevi superimposed on the remains of ancient Rome, after Lanciani, Forma Urbis (American Academy in Rome, Library)

12. The Castellum Aquae Juliae, coin of Alexander Severus (Fototeca Unione)

13. The Castellum Aquae Juliae in a print by Dupérac, 1575 (Fototeca Unione)

14. The Castellum Aquae Juliae, Gatteschi reconstruction, 1916 (Fototeca Unione)

15. Plan of the Campo Marzio, G. B. Nolli, 1748 (Fototeca Unione)

16. Medieval portico on Piazza di Trevi (GFN)

17. Site plan of the Piazza di Trevi (A. Ceen)

18. Depiction of Rome with representation of the Trevi, Taddeo di Bartolo, 1414 (Smith College slide and photograph collection)

19. Detail of Antonio Tempesta’s panoramic view of Rome, 1593, showing the Trevi (Smith College slide and photograph collection)

20. The Trevi of Nicholas V, after Franzini, 1643 (American Academy in Rome, Library)

21. Unexecuted project for the Trevi drafted under Pope Clement VIII (Vienna, Albertina)

22. Fontana dell’Acqua Felice, 1587–88

23. Fontana dell’Acqua Paola, 1611–12

24. Detail of Leonardo Bufalini’s plan of Rome, 1551, showing the Trevi (Smith College slide and photograph collection)

25. Detail of the Dupérac–Lafréry plan of Rome, 1577, showing the Trevi (Smith College slide and photograph collection)

26. Plan illustrating the urban context of the Trevi with property divisions, adapted from Nolli (A. Ceen)

27. Unexecuted project for the Trevi of circa 1561–66 (Rome, Archivio di Stato, Photo GFN)

28. Detail of the Maggi-Maupin-Losi plan of Rome, 1625, showing the Trevi (Smith College slide and photograph collection)

29. Unexecuted project for the Trevi drafted under Pope Urban VIII (Vienna, Albertina)

30. Lieven Cruyl, printed view of the Piazza di Trevi, 1667, by permission of the British Library (Map Room K Top LXXXI 79/79–4030/5)

31. Detail of Giovanni Battista Falda’s plan of Rome, 1676, showing the Trevi (Smith College slide and photograph collection)

32. The Trevi viewed from the altana of the Quirinal Palace

33. Site plan of the Piazza di Trevi in 1706 by Carlo Fontana (Windsor 9316) copyright reserved. Reproduced by Gracious Permission of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

34. Jan Miel, painting of the Trevi incorporating aspects of Bernini’s design (GFN)

35. Print of the Piazza di Trevi with SS. Vincenzo e Anastasio, 1665, after Falda, Il terzo libro (American Academy in Rome, Library)

36. Site plan of SS. Vincenzo e Anastasio, 1646, illustrating its encroachment on the public street (Rome, Archivio di Stato, authorization no. 62)

37. Piranesi veduta illustrating the relationship between the Trevi and SS. Vincenzo e Anastasio (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 41.71.1 (17) Rogers Fund, 1941)

38. Gianlorenzo Bernini’s Fountain of the Four Rivers, 1648–51

39. Pietro da Cortona’s unexecuted project for a new display of the Trevi at Piazza Colonna, plan (Photo Biblioteca Vaticana, Cod. Chigi, P VII, 10, f. 10)

40. Pietro da Cortona’s unexecuted project for a new display of the Trevi at Piazza Colonna, elevation (Photo Biblioteca Vaticana, Cod. Chigi, P VII, 10, f. 11)

41. Painted view of the Piazza di Trevi of circa 1710 in the Museo di Roma (GFN)

42. Site plan of the area behind the Trevi in 1728 (Archivio Segreto Vaticano, Fondo Boncompagni, vol. 682, no. 15)

43. Unexecuted project for the Trevi of circa 1730 showing the facade of the Palazzo Poli (Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, Hdz. 1017)

44. Triglyph on the facade of the Palazzo Poli visible behind Salvi’s fountain

45. Nicola Salvi’s winning design for the Fontana di Trevi, Museo di Roma (GFN)

46. Unexecuted project for the Trevi, circa 1706–08, here attributed to Carlo Bizzacheri (Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, Hdz. 1018)

47. Bernardo Borromini, unexecuted project for the Trevi, 1701 (Vienna, Albertina)

48. Bernardo Borromini, unexecuted project for the Trevi, 1704 (Vienna, Albertina)

49. Bernardo Borromini, unexecuted project for the Trevi, 1706 (Vienna, Albertina)

50. Romano Carapecchia, unexecuted project for the Trevi, 1704–06 (Stockholm, Nationalmuseum)

51. Romano Carapecchia, unexecuted project for the Trevi, 1704–06 (London, Conway Library, Courtauld Institute of Art)

52. Nicola Michetti, unexecuted project for the Trevi, 1704–06, elevation (Windsor 10765) copyright reserved. Reproduced by Gracious Permission of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

53. Filippo Juvarra, unexecuted project for the Trevi, 1704–06 (Turin, National Library)

54. Filippo Juvarra, unexecuted project for the Trevi, 1704–06 (Madrid, National Library)

55. Unexecuted project for the Trevi, 1704–06, plan (Rome, Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, FN 6717)

56. Unexecuted project for the Trevi, 1704–06, elevation, after Gradara, Pietro Bracci

57. Carlo Fontana, unexecuted project for the Trevi, 1706, plan (Windsor 9318) copyright reserved. Reproduced by Gracious Permission of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

58. Carlo Fontana, unexecuted project for the Trevi, 1706, primo pensiero (Windsor 9322) copyright reserved. Reproduced by Gracious Permission of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

59. Carlo Fontana, unexecuted project for the Trevi, 1706, quarto pensiero (Windsor 9323) copyright reserved. Reproduced by Gracious Permission of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

60. Carlo Fontana, unexecuted project for the Trevi with naturalistic basin, 1706 (Windsor 9331) copyright reserved. Reproduced by Gracious Permission of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

61. Giacomo Ciolli, Concorso Clementino project for a wall fountain, 1706, plan (Accademia di San Luca)

62. Giacomo Ciolli, Concorso Clementino project for a wall fountain, 1706, elevation (Accademia di San Luca)

63. Benedykt Renard, Concorso Clementino project for a wall fountain, 1706, plan (Accademia di San Luca)

64. Benedykt Renard, Concorso Clementino project for a wall fountain, 1706, elevation (Accademia di San Luca)

65. Ferdinando Fuga, unexecuted project for the Trevi, 1723, elevation (Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, Hdz. 1981/33AOZ)

66. Ferdinando Fuga, unexecuted project for the Trevi, 1723, plan (Rome, Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, FN 1196)

67. Alessandro Rossini, unexecuted project for the Trevi, 1727(?) (Stockholm, Nationalmuseum)

68. Unexecuted project for the Trevi with Neptune, circa 1730 (Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, Hdz. 1016)

69. Unexecuted project for the Trevi with Roma, circa 1730 (Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, Hdz. 1013)

70. Unexecuted project for the Trevi with a ruined aqueduct, circa 1730 (Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, Hdz. 1015)

71. Unexecuted project for the Trevi with the Vestal Tuccia, circa 1730 (Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, Hdz. 1014)

72. Unexecuted project for the Trevi with Roma, circa 1730 (Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale d’Archeologia e Storia dell’Arte)

73. Unexecuted project for the Trevi with Atlas, circa 1730 (Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale d’Archeologia e Storia dell’Arte)

74. Unexecuted project for the Trevi with Roma, circa 1730 (Rome, private collection)

75. Edme Bouchardon, unexecuted project for the Trevi, circa 1730 (Compiègne, Musée Vivènel)

76. Edme Bouchardon, Fontaine de la Rue Grenelle, 1739–45 (S. Petegorsky)

77. Luigi Vanvitelli, unexecuted project for the Trevi, 1730, plan (Rome, Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, FN 6716)

78. Luigi Vanvitelli, unexecuted project for the Trevi, 1730, elevation (Rome, Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, FN 6718)

79. Nicola Salvi, unexecuted project for the Trevi with Roma, plan (Rome, Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, FN 6715)

80. Nicola Salvi, unexecuted project for the Trevi with Roma, elevation (Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal)

81. Nicola Salvi, fireworks macchina of 1728 (Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense)

82. Nicola Salvi, unexecuted project for the facade of S. Giovanni in Laterano, 1732 (Accademia di San Luca)

83. Pier Leone Ghezzi, caricature of Nicola Salvi, 1744 (Photo Biblioteca Vaticana, Cod. Ottob. lat. 3118, f. 143v.)

84. Air view of the Trevi (Stato Maggiore dell’Aeronautica, Ufficio Documentazione)

85. General view of the Trevi (Alinari/Art Resource, N.Y.)

86. Fontana di Trevi, detail of the southwest corner

87. Fontana di Trevi, detail of the oak tree

88. Fontana di Trevi, detail of the crumbling pilaster

89. Fontana di Trevi, central pavilion (Alinari/Art Resource, N.Y.)

90. Fontana di Trevi, sculpture and basin viewed from first-floor window to the west

91. Fontana di Trevi, sculpture and basin viewed from first-floor window to the east

92. Fontana di Trevi, detail of entablature and attic

93. Fontana di Trevi, view from the west showing the disjuncture between palace and fountain (GFN)

94. Fontana di Trevi, Oceanus

95. Fontana di Trevi, Oceanus, with figures for scale

96. Fontana di Trevi, Oceanus and triton group from above (B. Bini)

97. Fontana di Trevi, right-hand triton from above (B. Bini)

98. Fontana di Trevi, left-hand triton from above (B. Bini)

99. Fontana di Trevi, right-hand triton

100. Fontana di Trevi, left-hand triton

101. Fontana di Trevi, Filippo Della Valle’s statue of Fertility

102. Fontana di Trevi, Filippo Della Valle’s statue of Health

103. Fontana di Trevi, Andrea Bergondi’s bas-relief of Agrippa supervising the construction of the Aqua Virgo

104. Fontana di Trevi, Giovanni Battista Grossi’s bas-relief of Trivia pointing out the source of the Aqua Virgo

105. Fontana di Trevi, attic sculpture and inscription (B. Bini)

106. Fontana di Trevi, view down on the scogli (B. Bini)

107. Fontana di Trevi, detail of the scogli at left with a prickly pear

108. Fontana di Trevi, detail of the scogli at right with the crumbling pilaster and giant urn

109. Fontana di Trevi, detail of the water plants to the left of the cascade

110. Fontana di Trevi, detail of the scogli with grapevine

111. Fontana di Trevi, detail of the drinking fountain below the colossal urn

112. Fontana di Trevi, detail of the escutcheon of Cardinal Caracciolo di Santobono

113. Fontana di Trevi, time exposure showing the fall of water, frontal (Alinari/Art Resource, N.Y.)

114. Fontana di Trevi, time exposure showing the fall of water, oblique (Alinari/Art Resource, N.Y.)

115. Fontana di Trevi, detail of the three central basins from above (B. Bini)

116. Fontana di Trevi, detail of the water in the central cascade viewed from the side

117. Fontana di Trevi, detail of the secondary cascade below the rearing sea horse

118. Fontana di Trevi, detail of the basin viewed from above (GFN)

119. Fontana di Trevi, frontal veduta of Piranesi, 1773 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 60.536.7. The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960)

120. Fontana di Trevi, detail of the scogli and parapet from above (B. Bini)

121. Fontana di Trevi, detail of the colossal urn and parapet

122. The Quirinal Palace and SS. Vincenzo e Anastasio seen from the attic of the Trevi (GFN)

123. The Trevi framed by the Via di S. Vincenzo

124. The Trevi seen from Piazza dei Crociferi (GFN)

125. Site plan of the Piazza di Trevi drawn by Filippo Barigioni, circa 1735 (after Schiavo)

126. Giuseppe Valadier, unexecuted project for enlarging the Piazza di Trevi, 1811 (Accademia di San Luca)

127. G. P. Panini, view of the drawing of the lottery in Piazza Montecitorio, 1743 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1968, no. 68.53)

128. Carlo Camporese’s wooden model of the Trevi, 1733 (GFN)

129. Nicola Salvi, plan and elevation of the Trevi under construction, circa 1733 (Gabinetto Nazionale delle Stampe, FN 6719)

130. Annual Medal of 1736, reverse (Smith College slide and photograph collection)

131. Giuseppe Vasi, view of the Trevi under construction, 1739 (Photo Biblioteca Vaticana, Capponi II 16, int. 1, 12)

132. Pier Leone Ghezzi, caricature of the sculptor Giovanni Battista Maini, 1742 (Photo Biblioteca Vaticana, Cod. Ottob. lat. 3118, f. 139)

133. Pier Leone Ghezzi, view of the springs of the Acqua Vergine at Salone, 1744 (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett)

134. G. P. Panini, painting recording the inauguration of the Trevi in 1744 (Moscow, Pushkin Museum, after Arisi)

135. Hubert Robert, view of the Trevi under construction, circa 1760 (The Pierpont Morgan Library)

136. Carlo Camporese’s wooden model of the Trevi, 1733, oblique view

137. Nicola Salvi, drawing of the second-story windows of the Trevi, upper half (Museo di Roma)

138. Nicola Salvi, drawing of the second-story windows of the Trevi, bottom half (Biblioteca Nazionale d’Archeologia e Storia dell’Arte)

139. F. A. Grimm, plan of the Trevi, 1739–40, Rájec, State Castle (H. Lorenz)

140. F. A. Grimm, elevation of the Trevi, 1739–40, Brno, Moravian Gallery (H. Lorenz)

141. F. A. Grimm, second-story window of the Trevi, 1739–40, Brno, Moravian Gallery (H. Lorenz)

142. F. A. Grimm, first-story window of the Trevi, 1739–40, Brno, Moravian Gallery (H. Lorenz)

143. F. A. Grimm, escutcheon of Clement XII crowning the Trevi, 1739–40, Brno, Moravian Gallery (H. Lorenz)

144. Fontana di Trevi, detail of the escutcheon of Clement XII (B. Bini)

145. F. A. Grimm, escutcheon of Clement XII viewed from the rear, 1739–40, Brno, Moravian Gallery (H. Lorenz)

146. Fontana di Trevi, detail of the escutcheon of Clement XII seen from behind

147. F. A. Grimm, plan and elevation of the Trevi under construction, 1739–40, Brno, Moravian Gallery (H. Lorenz)

148. F. A. Grimm, elevation of the Trevi, detail showing sculpture, Brno, Moravian Gallery (H. Lorenz)

149. G. B. Maini, study for the Oceanus group (Private collection, Switzerland)

150. G. B. Maini, study for the Oceanus group (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett)

151. Piranesi, small view of the Trevi, after Barbiellini, 1741

152. Piranesi, small view of the Trevi, 1741, detail showing central group of sculpture

153. Nicola Salvi, section through the central niche of the Trevi, circa 1741 (London, Cyril Humphris)

154. Nicola Salvi, elevation of the Trevi, 1744–51, after Gradara, Pietro Bracci

155. Piranesi, oblique veduta of the Trevi, first state, 1751 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 37.45.3 Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937)

156. G. P. Panini, oil sketch of the Trevi, ca. 1744 (Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

157. The sculpture, scogli, and basin of the Trevi, viewed from the west, 1755–57 (Courtesy, the Trustees of Sir John Soane’s Museum)

158. The sculpture, scogli, and basin of the Trevi, frontal view, 1755–57 (Courtesy, the Trustees of Sir John Soane’s Museum)

159. The sculpture, scogli, and basin of the Trevi, viewed from the east, 1755–57 (Courtesy, the Trustees of Sir John Soane’s Museum)

160. Fontana di Trevi, detail of Oceanus

161. Nicola Salvi, plan of the central niche and cascade of the Trevi, circa 1741 (London, Cyril Humphris)

162. G. B. Piranesi, Grotteschi: The Tomb of Nero; National Gallery of Art, Washington, Andrew W. Mellon Fund 1978

163. Oceanus fountain in the Villa Albani (Fototeca Unione)

164. Copy after Pier Leone Ghezzi, head of Oceanus (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Ms. Vitt. Emanuele 580, c. 12r.)

165. Pier Leone Ghezzi, study of a triton sarcophagus in the Corsini collection (Photo Biblioteca Vaticana, Cod. Ottob. lat. 3107, f. 143)

166. Neptune sarcophagus, Vatican (after Rodenwaldt)

167. Oceanus mosaic, Vatican (after Nogara)

168. Bartolomeo Ammannati, Neptune Fountain, 1561–75, Piazza della Signoria, Florence

169. Giovanni Bologna, Oceanus Fountain, 1567–76, Boboli Gardens, Florence

170. Tivoli, Villa D’Este, detail of Dupérac print showing the Fountain of Neptune, 1573 (Smith College slide and photograph collection)

171. Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers, detail of snake

172. The Arch of Titus

173. The Arch of Constantine (Fototeca Unione)

174. Fontana di Trevi, detail showing swirling pattern of vault coffering

175. Temple of Venus and Rome, apse with swirling pattern of coffering

176. Michelangelo, Piazza del Campidoglio (GFN)

177. Palladio, Loggia del Capitaniato, Vicenza (Alinari/Art Resource, N.Y.)

178. Pietro da Cortona, Villa Pignetto Sacchetti (After Falda, Il nuovo teatro, 1665, tav. 36, American Academy Library)

179. Alessandro Galilei, S. Giovanni in Laterano, facade, 1732 (Alinari/Art Resource, N.Y.)

180. Georg Raphael Donner, Donnerbrunnen, Vienna, 1737 (Smith College slide and photograph collection)

181. Carl Hårleman, elevation of the Trevi (Stockholm, Nationalmuseum)

182. Simon Louis Du Ry, elevation of the Trevi, 1753–56 (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Kassel)

183. Laurent Pecheux, elevation of the Trevi, 1753 (Courtesy, the Trustees of Sir John Soane’s Museum)

184. Sir William Chambers, sketch of the colossal vase on the Trevi, 1751–55 (Victoria and Albert Museum, Crown Copyright)

185. Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge, Chestnut Hill pumping station, Boston, 1899

186. Charles Moore, Piazza d’Italia, 1975 (N. McGrath)

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