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9. EFEBO VOLANTE<br />

Una delle quattro figure in bronzo viene sollevata<br />

dalla fontana delle T<strong>art</strong>arughe nel centro<br />

di piazza Mattei, per essere restaurata e poi<br />

ricollocata al suo posto. Disegnata dal fantasioso<br />

<strong>art</strong>ista manierista Giacomo della Porta,<br />

in collaborazione con lo scultore fiorentino,<br />

Taddeo Landini, la fontana è uno straordinario<br />

monumento della Roma tardo cinquecentesca.<br />

Un secolo dopo, sotto Papa Alessandro VII, le<br />

vasche in marmo sono state rifatte probabilmente<br />

da Bernini.<br />

Molto ammirata, la fontana è stata replicata, a<br />

grandezza originale, a San Francisco e in una<br />

serie infinita di modelli decorativi come i centri<br />

tavola.<br />

Roma, 1979<br />

30<br />

FLYING EPHEBE<br />

One of the four bronze figures of youths is hoisted<br />

aloft to be replaced, after restoration, on the<br />

Tortoise Fountain at the center of Piazza Mattei.<br />

Designed by the inventive Mannerist architect,<br />

Giacomo della Porta, in collaboration with the<br />

Florentine sculptor, Taddeo Landini, the<br />

fountain is one of the outstanding monuments of<br />

late sixteenth-century Rome. A century later,<br />

under Pope Alexander VII, the marble basins were<br />

altered, probably by Bernini.<br />

Much admired over the generations, the fountain<br />

has often been replicated, notably in a full-scale<br />

copy in San Francisco and a plethora of small<br />

versions as decorative objects, such as table<br />

centers.<br />

Rome, 1979

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