Fontana delle Tartarughe

Work Information
Creators:	Giacomo della Porta (ca. 1532- ca. 1604) , Italian Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) , Italian
Location:	City/Site: Rome Region: Lazio Country: Italy
Material:	marble; bronze
Date:	1581-1588 (creation)
Vendor:	Archivision, Inc.

Available Views

Ard-7352

Description: Context view, looking southeast, showing placement at the center of Piazza Mattei

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-A1

Rights: © Scott Gilchrist

Ard-7353

Description: General view, looking southwest, showing placement at the center of Piazza Mattei

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-A2

Rights: © Scott Gilchrist

Ard-7355

Description: Frontal view, looking west, showing the fountain in profile

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-A3

Rights: © Scott Gilchrist

Ard-7357

Description: Side view into the fountain, showing three of the four bronze ephebes, each with a foot on a bronze dolphin and each helping a tortoise into the basin above (the four tortoise were to have originally

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-A4

Rights: © Scott Gilchrist

Ard-7358

Description: General view into the fountain, depecting central pedestal and lateral ephebes

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-B1

Rights: © Scott Gilchrist

Ard-7360

Description: The head of an ephebe (copy, as found in Huntington Park, San Francisco)

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-B10

Rights: © Scott Gilchrist

Ard-7361

Description: The head of an ephebe (copy, as found in Huntington Park, San Francisco)

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-B11

Rights: © Scott Gilchrist

Ard-7363

Description: Fountain spout detail

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-B12

Rights: © Scott Gilchrist

Ard-7364

Description: A tortoise, detail, showing profile (Pope Alexander VII commissioned Vatican artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini to restore the fountain in 1658-59, as a part of his restoration, Bernini added the struggling

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-B13

Rights: © Scott Gilchrist

Ard-7366

Description: Close frontal view of one ephebe (from the Greek "ephebos" - in Greek mythology a youth that is between 18 to 20)

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-B2

Rights: © Scott Gilchrist

Ard-7367

Description: Close view looking up into three ephebes, depicting torso and face

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-B3

Rights: © Scott Gilchrist

Ard-7369

Description: Close view into the center of the fountain, showing the pedestal of the basin above and profile of the dolphin

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-B4

Rights: © Scott Gilchrist

Ard-7370

Description: Close profile view of one ephebe, depicting how he holds the tail of the dolphin with one hand and helps the tortoise with the other

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-B5

Rights: © Scott Gilchrist

Ard-7372

Description: Close profile view of one ephebe, from behind and to the side, depicting how he holds the tail of the dolphin with one hand and helps the tortoise with the other

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-B6

Rights: © Scott Gilchrist

Ard-7373

Description: Detail of one ephebe, depicting the face and outstretched arm and hand

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-B7

Rights: © Scott Gilchrist

Ard-7374

Description: The head of an ephebe (copy, as found in Huntington Park, San Francisco)

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-B8

Rights: © Scott Gilchrist

Ard-7375

Description: The head of an ephebe, profile view (copy, as found in Huntington Park, San Francisco)

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-B9

Rights: © Scott Gilchrist

Ard-7376

Description: Frontal view showing one of the four basins in the form of a shell

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-C1

Ard-7377

Description: One of the four basins in the form of a Baroque stylized shell, side view

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-C2

Ard-7378

Description: One of the four basins in the form of a Baroque stylized shell, detail where the dolphin spout meets the shell

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-C3

Ard-7379

Description: One of the four basins in the form of a Baroque stylized shell, detail where the dolphin spout meets the shell, profile view

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-C4

Ard-7380

Description: One of the four dolphin, profile view

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-C5

Ard-7381

Description: One of the four dolphin, close side view

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-C6

Ard-7382

Description: One of the four dolphin, detail showing the tail

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-C7

Ard-7383

Description: Profile view of the pedestal upon which stands an ephebe (copy, as found in Huntington Park, San Francisco)

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-C8

Ard-7384

Description: Dedication plaque to Alexander VII (Pope Alexander VII commissioned Vatican artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini to restore the fountain in 1658-59, as a part of his restoration, Bernini added the struggling t

Vendor: Archivision, Inc.

Vendor Cat #: 1A1-DP-FT-C9

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