Friday, August 4, 2023

World of Fountains - VI

Giovanni Guerra
Fountain in Grotto with River God
ca. 1598
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Giovanni Maggi
Fontana della Tartarughe, Piazza Mattei, Rome
1618
etching
British Museum

Gianlorenzo Bernini
Study for Fontana del Tritone, Piazza Barberini, Rome 
ca. 1630-39
drawing
Royal Collection, Windsor

Anonymous Artist after Giambologna
Design for a Triton Fountain
ca. 1650-75
drawing
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Giovanni Battista Falda
Bernini's Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi
Piazza Navona, Rome

ca. 1691
etching
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Anonymous Printmaker after Francesco Fanelli
Design for a Fountain with a Statue of Venus
ca. 1680-1700
engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Nicolas Dorigny after Gianlorenzo Bernini
Central Figure, Fontana del Moro,
Piazza Navona, Rome

ca. 1704
etching and engraving
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Edme Bouchardon
Design for a Fountain with Hercules subduing Centaurs
ca. 1735-40
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Gilles-Marie Oppenordt
Fountain with River God under an Arch
before 1742
drawing
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Anonymous Bolognese Artist
Design for a Fountain
18th century
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Eugène Constant
Fontana della Tartarughe, Piazza Mattei, Rome
ca. 1848-52
albumen print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Michele Petagna
Fontana della Tartarughe, Piazza Mattei, Rome
ca. 1864
albumen silver prints (stereograph)
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Alphonse Legros
Petite Fontaine - Enfant et Masques
1883
drypoint
British Museum

Denman Waldo Ross
Fountain in Paris
ca. 1890-1910
watercolor
Harvard Art Museums

Carl Van Vechten
Fountain in Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
1938
gelatin silver print
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Peter Fink
Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, New York
1964
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Graham Sutherland
Fountain
1965
oil on canvas
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

Riverlight

My father and I lie down together.
He is dead.

We look up at the stars, the steady sound
Of the wind turning the night like a ceiling fan.
This is our home.

I remember the work in him
Like bitterness in persimmons before a frost.
And I imagine the way he had fear,
The ground turning dark in a rain.

Now he gets up.

And I dream he looks down in my eyes
And watches me die.

– Frank Stanford 

(poem published after the author's suicide at age 29 in 1978)