High atop this work is a dove holding an olive branch, in homage to the coat of arms of the Pamphili family that commissioned it.
High atop this work is a dove holding an olive branch, in homage to the coat of arms of the Pamphili family that commissioned it. The figures depicted are a bearded man gesturing up towards the dove, another bearded man wielding an oar in his left hand, a black man sitting near a pile of coins, and a man with a cloth obscuring his face to signify how his origins had not yet been discovered by Europeans. FTP, name this Gianlorenzo Bernini piece depicting the Danube, Ganges, de la Plata, and the Nile.
High atop this work is a dove holding an olive branch, in homage to the coat of arms of the Pamphili family that commissioned it.
{Fountain of the Four Rivers}