Fontana della Barcaccia
The Fontana della Barcaccia (German Barkassen -Brunnen ) is a baroque fountain in Rome . It is located on the Piazza di Spagna in front of the Spanish Steps .
history
The Fontana della Barcaccia was built in the years 1627 (or 1628) to 1629 by Pietro Bernini , father of Gian Lorenzo Bernini , at the request of Pope Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini), taking bees, a heraldic symbol of the pontiff's family, and the tiara at the outer ends of the boat were incorporated into the design. Collaborators were the sculptor Battista Bancozzi and possibly also Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The name Barcaccia is derived from the shape of a semi-sloping launch. The fountain was supposed to commemorate a flood disaster in 1598, during which the square was flooded and a boat is said to be stranded here. Travertine was used as the material .
The fountain is supplied with drinking water by Aqua Virgo . Because of the weak water pressure at the time of construction, it was created slightly below street level.
The fountain was thoroughly restored and cleaned in 1986 and from autumn 2013 to September 2014 at a price of 209,960 euros.
On February 19, 2015, the fountain was badly damaged by hooligans from Feyenoord Rotterdam in a riot in the run-up to the Europa League game against AS Roma . Some damage was described by the monument authority as irreversible.
See also
literature
- Hans-Ulrich Kessler: Pietro Bernini (1562-1629). Hirmer Verlag 2005, ISBN 3-77-749010-5 .
- Heinz-Joachim Fischer : Rome. Two and a half millennia of history, art and culture of the Eternal City. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7701-5607-2 , p. 214.
- Anton Henze : Art Guide Rome. Philipp Reclam GmbH, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-010402-5 , p. 304.
- Touring Club Italiano : Guida Rossa, Roma. Milan 2013, ISBN 8-83-656192-6 , p. 373.
Web links
- Roma SPQR: "Fontana della Barcaccia" (Italian)
- Barcaccia - maltreated fountain (German)
Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′ 20.9 ″ N , 12 ° 28 ′ 56 ″ E
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Touring Club Italiano: Guida Rossa, Roma, p. 373.
- ↑ Piazza di Spagna, Barcaccia “ingabbiata” partono i lavori di restauro della fontana. Il Messaggero , October 25, 2013, accessed February 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Piazza di Spagna, torna a splendere la fontana della Barcaccia restaurata. La Repubblica , September 19, 2014, accessed February 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Maltrated attraction. Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 20, 2015, accessed on February 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Rome wants compensation after rioting and damage to the Bernini fountain. Südtirol Online , February 21, 2015, archived from the original on February 25, 2015 ; accessed on February 21, 2015 .