Bernini’s Fountains (Seventeenth Century)

CYCLE: Reintegrations: from the storage rooms to the exhibition route
SPEAKER: Augusto Roca de Amicis
DATE: Thursday 16 October, 6 pm

The large terracotta reproducing the model designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for the Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona is a precious testimony to the enormous success that this monumental and overwhelming invention, created by the artist for Pope Innocent X, enjoyed throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—also thanks to smaller-scale versions. The work will soon undergo restoration. Its cataloguing is owed to Dr. Emiliano Riccobono.

Augusto Roca De Amicis has been Full Professor of History of Architecture at Sapienza University of Rome since 2004. He is the director of the journal Quaderni dell’Istituto di Storia dell’Architettura and the series Gradus. Studies in History of Architecture and Restoration. His research focuses on key figures of Italian Baroque architecture, such as Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Francesco Borromini, and Pietro da Cortona, as well as on the urban history of Rome in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His publications include monographs on early seventeenth-century Roman architecture and studies on Borromini’s work in San Giovanni in Laterano.

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