Design for a Fountain for the Palazzo Corsini, Rome, Italy
Classification
architecture
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Museum purchase through gift of various donors
Accession Number
1901-39-400
About this artwork
Research in Progress
Art Historical Context
Ferdinando Fuga’s *Design for a Fountain for the Palazzo Corsini* offers a glimpse into the architectural imagination of eighteenth-century Rome. Created around 1743, this preparatory work reflects the artist’s role in shaping the city’s public spaces during a period when fountains served both practical and symbolic purposes, celebrating papal patronage and civic pride. As an Italian architect active from 1699 to 1781, Fuga contributed to numerous Roman projects, blending functionality with elegant ornamentation suited to grand palazzi like the Corsini residence on the Via della Lungara. Clas...