Fountain of Neptune, Bologna

Fountain of Neptune
Fontana del Nettuno
The Fountain of Neptune
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44°29′40″N 11°20′33″E / 44.49444°N 11.34250°E / 44.49444; 11.34250
LocationItaly Bologna, Italy
DesignerTommaso Laureti & Giambologna
TypeFountain
MaterialBronze and stone
Beginning date1563
Completion date1566

The Fountain of Neptune (Italian: Fontana di Nettuno) is a monumental civic fountain located in the eponymous square, Piazza del Nettuno, next to Piazza Maggiore, in Bologna, Italy[1] The fountain is a model example of Mannerist taste of the Italian courtly elite in the mid-sixteenth century.

  1. ^ The urbanistic history and quasi-political character of these interrelated civic spaces and structures expressing conflicting connotations of papal and communal-republican instruments of government are discussed in Naomi Miller, Renaissance Bologna: A Study in Architectural Form and Content (University of Kansas) 1989.