The Piazza Navona Obelisk, 1833 by Agostino Tofanelli
© Bridgeman Art Library / Private Collection / The Stapleton Collection
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- The Piazza Navona Obelisk, 1833
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- Agostino Tofanelli
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- STC384859
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- Bridgeman Art Library
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- © Bridgeman Art Library / Private Collection / The Stapleton Collection
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Obelisque de la Place Navone; Engraved by Pietro Fontana (1762-1837); from 'Recueil des vues au bister dessinees et lavees par Callimachus, Souvenirs d'antiquites et curiosites de Rome et des environs, Deblayements et reparations du Pape Pie VII'; Pope Pius VII (1742-1823) Papacy (1800-23) Count Barnaba Niccolo Maria Luigi Chiaramonti; A copy commissioned by Domitian (ruled 81-96); Moved from the Circus of Maxentius by Innocent X in 1651; Sits atop the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi built by Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) and his pupils in the same year; The figure on the left is the River Plate, and the one on the right the river Danube; Up until the late 19th century the piazza was flooded every weekend in August;
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