Am I a prettyyy girlll? :]…?
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Bernini’s baroque Triton Fountain (Italian Fontana del Tritone) is located in Piazza Barberini, Rome, near the entrance to the Palazzo Barberini (Now the museum, Galeria de Arte Antica), which Bernini helped redesign for his patron Maffeo Barberini, who had become pope as Urban VIII. It is a few blocks from Borromini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane In the fountain, which Bernini executed of travertine in 1642–43, an over-lifesize muscular Triton, a minor sea god of ancient Greco-Roman legend, is depicted as a merman kneeling on an opened scallop shell. He throws back his head to raise a conch to his lips: from it a jet of water spurts, formerly rising dramatically higher than it does today. The fountain has a base of four dolphins that entwine the papal tiara and the heraldic Barberini bees in their scaly tails. The Tritone, first of Bernini’s fountains, was to provide water from the Acqua Felice aqueduct that Urban had restored, in a dramatic celebration. It was Bernini’s last major commission from his great patron.
At the Triton Fountain, Urban and Bernini brought a garden feature familiar from villas decisively to a public, wholly urban setting for the first time. All the previous fountains of Rome had been passive basins for the reception of public water or had garden settings in the urban villas.
The triumphant passage from Ovid’s Metamorphoses book I, evoking godlike control over the waters and describing the draining away of the universal Deluge, which Urban set Bernini to illustrate, was well-known to all literate Roman contemporaries:
Already Triton, at his call, appears
Above the waves; a Tyrian robe he wears;
And in his hand a crooked trumpet bears.
The soveraign bids him peaceful sounds inspire,
And give the waves the signal to retire.
His writhen shell he takes; whose narrow vent
Grows by degrees into a large extent,
Then gives it breath; the blast with doubling sound,
Runs the wide circuit of the world around:
The sun first heard it, in his early east,
And met the rattling ecchos in the west.
The waters, list’ning to the trumpet’s roar,
Obey the summons, and forsake the shore.
—free translation by Sir Samuel Garth, John Dryden, et al..
Legend has it that any visitor who throws a coin into the water will have guaranteed their return to Rome.
Question by The Pop Tartist: Am I a prettyyy girlll? :]…?
Rate my plox. Please raise my self esteem by telling me I’m the bees knees!!! LOLZ!!1!!
Can you help? Leave your own answer in the comments!
31 Responses to Am I a prettyyy girlll? :]…?
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sry i gave up liein a min ago
girlofsatx
September 3, 2012 at 5:05 pm
Baybehh, youz the beez kneez.
иi¢σℓeттe
September 3, 2012 at 5:15 pm
What are you eating, and I didn’t know bees had knees?
Nicholas wants a broken ♥ parade
September 3, 2012 at 6:07 pm
Gorgeous.
Peaceful Warlord III
September 3, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Yesss, but Lois is betterm hunyy. 🙂
Peter Griffin
September 3, 2012 at 7:24 pm
Yup.
Tinkle Bear
September 3, 2012 at 7:57 pm
3
★rEmY aLiZe★ ®
September 3, 2012 at 8:03 pm
4/10
6/10 with some bangs and mascara
Lucy nicole
September 3, 2012 at 8:17 pm
dam i just got wet
МАЛЛу <3s BELLA!
September 3, 2012 at 9:03 pm
YIKES! thats all i have to sayyy!
hello my love
September 3, 2012 at 9:28 pm
i knew this was a joke
a
September 3, 2012 at 10:08 pm
you da ees knees. whateva that means
♥Good girl gone bad♥
September 3, 2012 at 10:24 pm
0
cloveryer
September 3, 2012 at 10:32 pm
no
Hedwig St. George
September 3, 2012 at 11:27 pm
Sure 😀
Rick James!!
September 4, 2012 at 12:26 am
Bad picture. Take another and I’ll give it a judge
D3V!N
September 4, 2012 at 12:37 am
6.1/10
xinnybuxlrie
September 4, 2012 at 1:27 am
Def bees knees.
Ryan P.
September 4, 2012 at 2:08 am
your not ugly.. So yes ur the bees KNEES!!!!
n come on ur pretty ;P plz believe it…
Hello..
September 4, 2012 at 2:54 am
Lying is bad, so I can’t lie to you,
No, You are not pretty.
5cr33m0
September 4, 2012 at 2:57 am
well, you could’ve put a better picture of yourself on here…
к ε ℓ ℓ y ღ
September 4, 2012 at 3:02 am
your mom is the bees knees .
i just want to be your friend
September 4, 2012 at 4:01 am
sorry bud. a face transplant is needed
lol jokes
but still your not that good looking. sorry.
your the bees knees. but the bee just knelt in dog poo. sorry.
Bekkerz
September 4, 2012 at 4:14 am
wow…ppl are jerks! you purty girl!!! 🙂
Sarah
September 4, 2012 at 5:08 am
*throwing up*
linz_b
September 4, 2012 at 5:54 am
oh wow.. alright..if it makes u happy..ur the bees knees.
2 pts folks 2 pts
CDS♥ツ
September 4, 2012 at 6:34 am
No, not very, but I could still like you.
supertop
September 4, 2012 at 6:42 am
that ice cream bar is pretty damn sexy too 🙂
mice go rawr!♥
September 4, 2012 at 6:51 am
I don’t lie…Your average i guess but that’s not the most flattering picture of yourself is it lol
☣Fояδвάßз☣ Is Divalicious
September 4, 2012 at 7:15 am
stunning
tina
September 4, 2012 at 7:37 am
sure not
i think you must be joking !!!
this is not your normal view
suli2009
September 4, 2012 at 8:15 am