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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Rome, Lazio, Italyen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1644 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorBernini, Gian Lorenzoen_US
dc.creatorUrban VIII, Popeen_US
dc.date1644en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-26T20:20:18Z
dc.date.available2013-04-26T20:20:18Z
dc.date.issued1644en_US
dc.identifier211733en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 621en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/119229
dc.descriptionDetail, depicting bee as fountain head; "The fountain was erected by Urban VIII [Maffeo Barberini] in the last year of his pontificate (1644) against the corner of a palace where the via Sistian abuts on Piazza Barberini. In 1865 it was removed and the pieces stored till 1915 when it was reconstructed...the upper shell, with the inscription, is part of the original, but the lower is a complete and arbitrary reconstruction. Only the concetto of the double shell, a symbol of life and fertility, with the Barberini bees, survives what must have been a peculiarly concentrated invention of Bernini." p. 230 Source: Blunt, Anthony; Guide to baroque Rome, London ; New York : Granada, 1982 (0246117621) (accessed 12/2/2007)en_US
dc.format.mediummarbleen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectanimalsen_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectrulers and leadersen_US
dc.subjectFountainsen_US
dc.subjectUrban VIII, Pope, 1568-1644en_US
dc.subjectBaroqueen_US
dc.titleFontana delle Apien_US
dc.title.alternativeFountain of the Beesen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-BG-FA-A4en_US
vra.culturalContextItalianen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypefountainen_US
dc.contributor.displayGian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian architect, 1598-1680); Urban VIII, Pope (Italian patron, 1568-1644)en_US


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