Fontana dell'Acqua Paola
The Fontana Paola ( Fontana Acqua Paola completely, Italian also briefly Fontanone, large fountain ) is a Baroque fountain in Rome on the Via Garibaldi on the Janiculum. It was built from 1610 to 1612 at the instigation of Pope Paul V. The architects of the Fontana Paola were probably Flaminio Ponzio and Giovanni Fontana.
Acqua Paola
Following the example of Pope Sixtus V, who was the Acqua Felice build, also Camillo Borghese wanted to do great service to the water supply of Rome as Pope Paul V. Even in the year of his election, he commissioned Giovanni Fontana (his brother Domenico Fontana worked for 18 years before at the Acqua Felice) and Carlo Maderno with the restoration of the Aqua Traiana, the water from sources in the Sabatini Mountains, north of Lake Bracciano transported to Rome. The restored water pipe called Paul V after himself Acqua Paola. With it, the Roman district of Trastevere and the Vatican could be supplied with water by about a thousand years of interruption again.
In the 17th century it was the opinion, however, still you have restored the Aqua Alsietina, as the inscription on the Fontana Paola reveals (see below). This ancient aqueduct had a similar course as the Aqua Traiana. However, the water of the Aqua Alsietina had no drinking water quality in contrast to the Aqua Traiana.
Architecture
Just as with the Acqua Felice aqueduct should obtain a representative endpoint. Giovanni Fontana took the Well of Moses to the master and used as there as a central architectural motif a triumphal arch. Also the architrave with the überproporzionalen inscription and the papal coat of arms at the top remember the model. Notwithstanding Fontana added the Arc de Triomphe to two further smaller arches. Unlike the Well of Moses, however, there are no statues under the arches. Therefore, the effect of flowing water is more pronounced, which pours into small waterfalls in bowls, from which it continues to fall into a large basin. In the outer arches are two eagle ( the emblem of the Borghese) as a gargoyle. The Arches featured columns come from the nave of Old St. Peter's, which was just demolished for construction of the well due to the completion of St. Peter's, by Carlo Maderno.
Inscription
The architrave of the well following inscription is
Even Goethe praised in the records of his travel diary the fountain.