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Copyright: Francesco Buttice (mongibello)
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| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2007-04-12 |
| Categories: Architecture |
| Exposure: f/5.6, 1/160 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2007-04-29 9:40 |
| Viewed: 660 |
| Points: 0 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Fountain of Neptune is a monumental fountain that you can find in Bologna in a central public square.
The statue was promoted from the Cardinal of Bologna Carlo Borromeo.
This fountain was intended to symbolize the happy government of the new Pope Pio IV, who was maternal uncle of Borromeo.
The work was planned from the architect and painter Tommaso Laureti in 1563
and over it they build a bronze statue of the God Neptune made by Jean de Boulogne from Douai, better known as "the Giambologna".
The story tells that Laureti would have realized Neptune with bigger genitals but the church did not agree and forbade this.
Laureti, smartly, designed the statue as if the stiff in the left hand of Neptune were similar to a penis erectus.
Women were so impressed by that view, that the church had to put a sort of bronze pants to the statue.
Anyway erotical impression was still remained, as another example the water spraying from nymphs nipples.
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