Fontane di Roma

Rome is the city of fountains; there are over two thousand large and small ones. A mild climate, a large river and an abundance of spring water have contributed to their birth. They are beautiful, imaginative, eccentric, and in nearly every case they are the work of a great sculptor and architect. Their story is an ancient one, beginning in the IV century B.C. with the first aqueducts and it continues throughout the centuries with Renaissance fountains, the baroque fountains of the Rome of Bernini, the neo-classical fountains of the nineteenth century, and finally the two decades of Fascist fountains.
From small neighbourhood fountains to the spectacular fountains designed for the Piazza di Spagna and Piazza Navona by Bernini, to the Trevi Fountain, which became a symbol of the Dolce Vita of the 1950s, this is a story in images of water and stone through the eternal city.

Frederick Cope is a journalist and photographer. He gained a degree in Political Science and Contemporary History at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris and has written extensively on China, central Europe and England as a correspondent and envoy. He currently works in Rome.
Maurizia Tazartes is an art historian and critic, and a consultant at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Santa Monica (California). She holds conferences and seminars at the Scuola Normale in Pisa on art from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. She contributes to the compilation of the Dictionary of Art (Macmillan Publishers, London), has curated exhibitions of contemporary artists and is the author of numerous books and essays, such as Bronzino (Rizzoli illustrated books 2003).