Fontana delle Api

Fontana delle Api It was sculpted by Gian Lorenzo Bernini completed in the April 1644. It consists of a marble bi-valve shell with three bees of the same material resting on it.

The Fontana delle Api (Turkish: Arilar Cesmesi_English:Fountain of the Bees) is a fountain located in the Piazza Barberini in Rome where the Via Veneto enters the piazza. The fountain was intended to be a watering trough for horses. An inscription on the shell reads "Urban VIII Pont. Max., having built a fountain for the public ornamentation of the City, also built this little fountain to be of se

rvice to private citizens. In the year 1644, XXI of his pontificate." The "public ornamentation" referred to in the inscription is the Triton Fountain, or Fontana del Tritone, which Bernini had completed the year before.

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Piazza Barberini
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