La Fontana dei Putti di Pisa - The Putti Fountain of Pisa

            C'è una fontana settecentesca in bianco marmo di Carrara a Pisa, si trova su un lato della piazza dei Miracoli. La fontana vera e propria è costituita da un semplice basamento quadriforme ed è sormontata dal gruppo scultoreo che raffigura tre colossali putti che reggono le armi della primaziale e della città.
La maggior parte dei turisti si sofferma a vederla soprattutto perché dalla fontana sgorga acqua fresca potabile che disseta durante la visita della piazza.
 
Disprezzata a lungo da pubblico e critica, gode oggi di una inaspettata popolarità.
La Fontana dei putti è opera di Giuseppe Vaccà e di Giovanni Antonio Cybei su disegno di Giovanni Battista Tempesti.
Rispetto ai canoni estetici fino ad allora utilizzati, nonostante l’apprezzamento iniziale, le critiche non tardarono ad arrivare. Il primo giudizio scritto, arrivato fino a noi, è del 1767, quando Filippo D’Angelo, autore di una Memoria del Duomo manoscritta, ne etichetta l’autore come “un pessimo statuario”.
L’impostazione spavalda dell’opera, inaugurata nel 1765, è quindi frutto di un dialogo artistico tra pittore (il Tempesti) e scultore; il suo vorticoso, continuo e movimentato ritmo, senza un punto di vista privilegiato, l’architettura interamente antropomorfa, il gigantismo delle figure, dovevano in un certo senso disorientare lo spettatore.
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There is an eighteenth-century fountain in white Carrara marble in Pisa, located on one side of the Piazza dei Miracoli. The actual fountain is constituted by a simple four-shaped base and is surmounted by the sculptural group that represents three colossal putti that support the weapons of the primatial and the city.
Most tourists stop to see it mainly because fresh drinking water flows from the fountain which quenches thirst during the visit of the square.
 
Despised for a long time by the public and critics, today it enjoys an unexpected popularity.
The Fontana dei putti is the work of Giuseppe Vaccà and Giovanni Antonio Cybei based on a design by Giovanni Battista Tempesti.
Compared to the aesthetic canons used until then, despite the initial appreciation, the criticisms were not long in coming. The first written judgment, which has come down to us, is from 1767, when Filippo D’Angelo, author of a handwritten memorial of the Duomo, labels the author as "a bad statuary".
The bold approach of the work, inaugurated in 1765, is therefore the result of an artistic dialogue between the painter (Tempesti) and the sculptor; its whirling, continuous and lively rhythm, without a privileged point of view, the entirely anthropomorphic architecture, the gigantism of the figures, must in a certain sense bewilder the viewer.

   

Taken in: Italy / Tuscany / Pisa / Pisa (show map)

Taken on: December 7, 2013

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