Sculptors’ Fountains: Works in Exhibition

Hellenistic and Roman Figures, from Rome, Pompeii or Herculaneum, Marforio, A River God, Marble.

The name, Marforio, comes from the Forum of Mars, where this figure stood for many centuries.

Hellenistic and Roman Figures, from Rome, Pompeii or Herculaneum, Boy with a Goose, Marble.

Hellenistic and Roman Figures, from Rome, Pompeii or Herculaneum, Cupid with a Dolphin, Bronze.

Hellenistic and Roman Figures, from Rome, Pompeii or Herculaneum, The Nile, A River God, Marble.

Hellenistic and Roman Figures, from Rome, Pompeii or Herculaneum, Tipsy Faun, Lying on a Wineskin, Bronze.

Hellenistic and Roman Figures, from Rome, Pompeii or Herculaneum, Young Faun Holding a Wineskin, Bronze.

Medieval Fountains: The Sculpture Subordinated to the Architectural Lines, Fountain in the Cloister of the Benedictines, Sicilian, 12th century.

Medieval Fountains: The Sculpture Subordinated to the Architectural Lines, Fountains of the Lions, Moorish, 14th century.

Medieval Fountains: The Sculpture Subordinated to the Architectural Lines, Design for a Gothic Fountain, with Christ and the twelve Apostles, and nude figures dancing around the basin, late 15th century.

Medieval Fountains: The Sculpture Subordinated to the Architectural Lines, Public Fountain, Italian, 14th century.

Nicola Pisano- Medieval Fountains: The Sculpture Subordinated to the Architectural Lines, The Great Fountain, 1277, Marble.

Designed by Fra Bevignate. The reliefs by Nicola and Giovanni Pisano; the three nympha topping the central shaft by Arnolfo di Cambil.

The Renaissance- The Fifteenth Century: The Sculpture Bursts its Architectural Bonds, Fountain Figure: standing youth with an urn on his shoulder, Paduan Master, late 15th century, Courtesy of The Art Library, University of Chicago

Facsimile of a drawing in the British Museum.

The Renaissance- The Fifteenth Century: The Sculpture Bursts its Architectural Bonds, Fountain of the Three Graces, 1499, Venetian Master, 15th century.

Woodcut in Francesco Colonna’s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Venice.

The Renaissance- The Fifteenth Century: The Sculpture Bursts its Architectural Bonds, Cupid with a Dolphin, 1555, Bronze Figure.

The porphyry basin, by Francesco del Tadda. Detail showing only the figure and the original base with lions’ heads.

The Renaissance- The Fifteenth Century: The Sculpture Bursts its Architectural Bonds, Medici Fountain, Marble. Florentine Master, late 15th century.

The figure, a later addition, is in the 16th century style.

Jacopo Bellini- The Renaissance- The Fifteenth Century: The Sculpture Bursts its Architectural Bonds, Fountain in a Courtyard, Detail of a drawing in a Sketchbook in the Louvre, Paris.

Donatello- The Renaissance- The Fifteenth Century: The Sculpture Bursts its Architectural Bonds, Cupid with a Fish, Bronze, 15 inches high.

Giovanni Bologna, Flying Mercury, 1564, Bronze.

From a fountain on the loggia of the Villa Medici, Rome. A small photograph shows a copy of the figure in situ.

Andrea Della Rabbia- The Renaissance- The Fifteenth Century: The Sculpture Bursts its Architectural Bonds, Boy with a Dolphin, Glazed terra cotta, Courtesy of Mrs. Edwin C. Hoyt Collection, New York.

Giovanni Bologna, Fishing Boys, 1559, Bronze.

A photostat of a drawing by Francois Duquesnoy shows the form of the fountain, and a third putto.

Giovanni Bologna, Fountain of Venus, 1583, White marble figures, basin of dark green marble.

Giovanni Bologna, The Apennine, 1580, Colossal rustic fountain.

A photograph of an etching by Stefano della Bella shows the original form of the fountain, with the figure emerging from a cave, and spectators to indicate scale.

Bernardo Buotalenti, Interior of the Great Grotto, 1585.

Valerio Cioli, The Dwarf Morgante on a Turtle, 1560, Marble “portrait statue” of a dwarf at Cosimo dei Medici’s court.

Valerio Ciolo, The Dwarf Pietro Barbino, 1560, Marble.

Companion piece to the Morgante.

Valerio Cioli, A Dwarf on a Sea Dragon (attributed), Bronze figures on a miniature rustic fountain, for a room or table.

Valerio Cioli, Fountain of the Vintage, 1608, Marble group.

Completed by the sculptor’s nephew, Simone Cioli.

Pietro Francavilla, Venus Attended by a Nymph and a Satyr, 1600, Marble group of heroic size.

Jean Goujon, Five Nymphs, Symbolizing the Source, 1549, Marble reliefs.

Pierre Lescot, architect.

Taddeo Landini, Fountain of the Tortoises, 1588, Bronze figures, granite basin.

Battista Lorenzi, Alpheus and Arethusa, 1584, Marble group from a grotto at the Villa of Paradise, Pian di Ripoli.

Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli, Fountain of Neptune, 1557, Marble.

Pierino Da Vinci, Young River God, Marble.

Pierino Da Vinci, Putto Pissatore, Marble.

Niccolo Tribolo, The Great Fountain, 1560, Marble and bronze.

Niccolo Tribolo, Fountain of the Labyrinth, Relief and bronze.

Giovanni Lorenzo Berini, Neptune and Glaucus, 1623, Marble group from the Villa Montalto, Rome.

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Triton, 1629.

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Great Triton, 1640.

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers, 1651, Marble.

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Central Figure on the Fountain of the Moor, 1653.

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Two Designs for Fountains, Wash drawings.

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Wall Fountain with Two Tritons, 1669.

Pietro Bernini, Fountain of the Giants, 1601, Marble.

Pietro Bracci, Fountain of Trevi, 1768.

Francois Girardon, Fountain of the Pyramid, 1672, Lead, originally gilded.

Francois Girardon, Detail of the Bain Des Nymphes De Diane, 1675, Lead relief.

Giulio Parigi, Fountain if the Triton, 1635.

Jean Baptiste Pigalle, Mercury Attaching His Sandals, 1739, marble.

Pietro Tacco, Grotesque Fountain, 1641, Bronze.

Unknon Italian Sculptor, Rococo Wall Fountain, 18th century.

Gaston Lachaise, Dolphin Fountain I, 1922, Bronze.

Gaston Lachaise, Dolphin Fountain II, 1924, Bronze with dark green patina.

Carl Milles, Sunglitter, 1918, Bronze, 2 feet 8 inches high, Courtesy of Mr. Otto C. Doering River Forest.

Model for larger figure at Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Carl Milles, Jonah and the Whale, 1932, Bronze, 15 inches high, Courtesy of Mrs. Meyric Rogers, Chicago.

Small model for the fountain at Cranbrook.

Jean Baptiste Carpeaux, Fountain of the Observatory, 1871, Bronze.

Georg Kolbe, Fountain Figure, 1912, Marble.

Georg Kolbe, Details of a Bronze Model, 1919.

Georg Kolbe, Rathenau Fountain, 1930, Bronze and stone.

Marcel Francois Loyau, Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain, 1927.

Paul Manship, Venus Anadyomene, 1924, White marble figure.

Paul Manship, Prometheus, 1934, Bronze.

Brenda Putnam, Shakespeare Memorial Fountain, White marble.

Lawrence Tenney Stevens, Bat Fountain, 1929, Bronze statuette on cylindrical marble base carved with night creatures and flowers.

Lorado Taft, Plaster model of proposed Fountain of Creation, 1910.

Wheeler Williams, Sea Lion Fountain, 1932, Oxidized silvered bronze; ball of spun copper.

William Rush, Nymph of the Schuykill, 1854, Bronze.

The first American fountain?

Carl Milles, Small Triton Fountain, 1916, Bronze.

Carl Milles, Europa Fountain, 1926, Bronze.

Carl Milles, Folke Filbyter, 1927, Bronze.

Carl Milles, Poseidon Fountain, 1930, Bronze.

Carl Milles, Diana Court Fountain, 1930, Bronze.

Carl Milles, Jonah Fountain, 1932, Bronze.

Carl Milles, Orpheus Fountain, 1936, Bronze.

Carl Milles, Triton with Young Tritons, 1940, Bronze.