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Typology: Fountains

Address

Address: Piazza del Campidoglio
Zone: Rione Campitelli (Foro Romano- Campidoglio-P.Venezia) (Roma centro)

Description

The large statue of Marforio – the name perhaps recalling the fact that it came from the area in the Roman Forum near the Comitium called Martis forum (“forum of Mars”) – represents a river god or the Ocean and dates back to the latter half of the 1st century AD. In 1588 the statue was moved to Piazza San Marco, and in 1594 to the Capitol, where the architect Giacomo Della Porta used it in a fountain placed near the supporting wall of the terrace of the Ara Coeli. After the Palazzo Nuovo was built on the Piazza del Campidoglio opposite the Palazzo dei Conservatori, the fountain with the statue of Marforio was placed inside the courtyard of the new building. The fountain was again modified in 1734 by Filippo Barigioni, with the addition of a commemorative inscribed tablet of Clement XII and later also of the pope’s bust. Marforio is one of Rome’s “talking statues” – so called because the populace used them to put up notices expressing their discontent through epigrams in verse or prose –and was often the interlocutor of the most famous of these statues, known as Pasquino.

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Culture and leisure › Cultural heritage › Museums

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Last checked: 2022-07-13 12:23