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12 May 2008 173 views
 
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Middle of the road

 

Piazza della Repubblica is dominated by the Fountain of the Naiads: four smiling naiads who are interwined with just as many marine animals in a play of sinuous and allusive shapes that are tipically liberty. A marine-horse for the oceans, a water snake for the rivers,a swan for the lakes and a lizard for the subterranean rivers. The audacity of the figures sculptedby Mario Rutelli caused great controversary.

Fearful of a scandal, the government postponed the inauguration of the fountain for some time until it was finally held in 1901. In the center of the fountain one can see the marble figure of the mythical fisherman Glauco, struggling with a fish , which Rutelli himself added to the composition in 1912.
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