Fontana del Nettuno | |
_-_Fontana_del_Nettuno.jpg) The Fountain of Neptune | |
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| 44°29′40″N 11°20′33″E / 44.49444°N 11.34250°E | |
| Location |  Bologna, Italy |
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| Designer | Tommaso Laureti & Giambologna |
| Type | Fountain |
| Material | Bronze and stone |
| Beginning date | 1563 |
| Completion date | 1566 |
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.
- ^ 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.