A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . nth century by PierreLescot, with sculjiture by Jean Goujon ; but itwas moved in the reign of Louis XVI., muchaltered and defaced, and the modem restorationof it is only partial. Its exquisite bas-reliefsare widely known, but the fountain as it wasoriginally designed exists only in more or lessauthentic prints; it seems, however, to havebeen of excjuisite design, and was certainly ahigh, upright, vaulted pavilion, with four archesin the four sides, each tianked by pilasters,above the entablature of which ro
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . nth century by PierreLescot, with sculjiture by Jean Goujon ; but itwas moved in the reign of Louis XVI., muchaltered and defaced, and the modem restorationof it is only partial. Its exquisite bas-reliefsare widely known, but the fountain as it wasoriginally designed exists only in more or lessauthentic prints; it seems, however, to havebeen of excjuisite design, and was certainly ahigh, upright, vaulted pavilion, with four archesin the four sides, each tianked by pilasters,above the entablature of which rose a sculp-tured attic and a small cupola. FOUNTAIN OF FOUNTAIN OF THE LIONS. In the Alliandira, at Gniiiada, Sjiain. It stands inthe middle of the court to which it gives itsname, Court of the Lions. It consists of analabaster basin, twelve-sided, and sujjported bytwelve lions, which are very rudely carved,although their lack of realism may have somequasi-heraldic significance. FOUNTAIN OF THE MEDICI. At Paris,in the Luxembourg Gardens, witli several mytho-logical statues by Fountain at Autun, now destroyed THE WOKK OF FOUNTAIN OF THE MERCATO NU OVO. In Florence ; that with the Iironze boar,an excellent copy of the antiipie in the Uffizigallery. FOUNTAIN OF THE NYMPHS. Sameas Fountain of the Iniioreiits, aliii\c. FOUNTAIN OF THE Paris, near the Luxembourg Gardens, builtin 1874; remarkable for the group by Carpeauxof the four Quarters of the World supporting theSphere. 86 FOUNTAIN OF FOUNTAIN OF THE TORTOISES (delleTartamghe). In the heart of Rome, near theTiber. FOUNTAIN OF THE TRITON. At Rome ;the \v(.irk of Bernini. It .stands in tiie PiazzaBarherini, in tlie corner of Rome,near the Villa FOUNTAIN OF TREVI. At Rome. Thetermination of the ancient aqueduct, called AcjuaVirgo (.see Aqueduct). The water froman elaborate architectural facade, forming oneof the walls of the Palazzo Poli; the basinsin fr
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