My Trip in Rome

This late Reinassance work (1584) by Taddei Landini is probably from a design by Giacomo della Porta. Local legend tells how Duke Matteis, the owner of the neighbouring palace and an inverterate gambler, lost his fortune in one night. His prospective father-in-law advised him to look for another fiancée. To prove that a Matteo, even when ruined, could achieve wonders, he had the Turtle Fountain built in one night.
The focus of the fountain is four bronze boys, each grasping a dolphin🐬 spouting water into a marble shell. Bronze turtles🐢held in the boys’ hands drink from the upper basin.
📍Fontana delle Tartarughe, Rome, Italy.


@ Fontana delle Tartarughe - Piazza Mattei