Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers
1651 · Work
In Piazza Navona for Pope Innocent X, Bernini sets an Egyptian obelisk atop a hollow rock where four marble river gods — Nile, Ganges, Danube, Río de la Plata — stand for four continents.
On these timelines: Painting & Sculpture, Master, Arts and Thoughts, Italy (post-476 CE), The Papacy
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