Fontana di Piazza Campitelli

Late 16th-century fountain by Giacomo D. Porta

If you find yourself exploring the streets around Portico di Octovio and Teatro di Marcello you may encounter this fountain designed by Giacomo Della Porta (1589). You will see a chalice-shaped uppe...

Fontana di Piazza Campitelli

This fountain was commissioned by Pope Sixtus V and designed by Giacomo Della Porta in the late 16th century. It has two stacked octagonal travertine basins, in the middle of which stands a chalice-sh...

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Until 1871 the square was called "Piazza S.Maria in Campitelli" from the church of the same name that once stood here. Before that, the very old name was "piazza Capizucchi", from the palace of this ...

Fontana tarda-cinquecenta

Original Text

At the south-east end of the narrow and long square of Campitelli, this fountain is found on the design of Jacomo della Porta in the last years of the 16th century, after the entry into service ...

You see the hand of a great architect

Original Text

This work of Giacomo Della Porta is the daughter of a so good scalpellin. The gracious forms and proportions of the various elements make it, in my view, one of the most beautiful sources of R...