The Trevi Fountain is a Baroque fountain in Rome, set against the facade of the Palazzo Poli, and the largest fountain in the city. It marks the end of an ancient aqueduct, the Aqua Virgo, that supplied the city's water. In 1732 Pope Clement XII held a competition for its design, won by the architect Nicola Salvi, and work continued over the following decades, with the sculptor Pietro Bracci's statue of Oceanus at its center, finished in 1762. The figure of Oceanus is drawn on a shell chariot by seahorses guided by tritons. According to a popular tradition, visitors who throw a coin over their shoulder into the fountain will return to Rome, and the fountain appeared in films such as La Dolce Vita.
Before and after
- 1730Founding of Fitchburg
- from March 1730 to August 1730Western Persia campaign of 1730
- 24 April 1731Death of Daniel Defoe
- 10 October 1731Birth of Henry Cavendish
- 1732Trevi Fountain
- 22 February 1732Birth of George Washington
- 31 March 1732Birth of Joseph Haydn
- 13 March 1733Birth of Joseph Priestley
- from 10 October 1733 to 3 October 1735War of the Polish Succession
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The era
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