In the Unita' d'Italia square in the city of
Florence is the
Fountain of Neptune, where the statue had been placed until
1934 in the so called area of the "palazzata" near the old fish-pond. The work by
Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli[?] 1557 had suffered a great deal of damage during the Bourbon bombardments of
1848 and has been the object of restorations and substitutions; it no longer has the original step base and is erected on a large octagonal basin; the pedestal in the middle is decorated with the mythical chained figures of Scylla and Charybdis; on the top the figure of
Neptune and of
Scylla with his trident in the posture of placating the sea. The statues of Neptune are copies made in the nineteenth century while the original ones are in the National Museum created in
1914.
See also: Neptune, Mythology, Love
