# Fontana Maggiore \(detail\)

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## Artwork

- Artist: [PISANO, Nicola](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pisano-nicola-r5e9f258e7f0e16>)
- Date: 1251-1300
- Technique: Bronze and marble

## Commentary

Within the basin are 24 external and 34 internal columns, supporting a smaller 12-sided basin, the supports being carved with statuettes and the areas between them being left undecorated. From this there rises on a single stem a plain bronze basin, containing the main sculptural feature of the fountain, a bronze support with three female caryatides. Above this there must originally have been another smaller basin, but in the course of successive reconstructions of the fountain this has disappeared.

## Related artworks

- [Fontana Maggiore: Adam and Eve](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pisano-nicola-r5e9f258e7f0e16/fontana-maggiore-adam-and-eve-r894746ffbfbd8c>)
- [Fontana Maggiore: April](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pisano-nicola-r5e9f258e7f0e16/fontana-maggiore-april-rc9b456e892e94e>)
- [Fontana Maggiore: August](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pisano-nicola-r5e9f258e7f0e16/fontana-maggiore-august-r20d03f3a51447e>)
- [Fontana Maggiore: December](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pisano-nicola-r5e9f258e7f0e16/fontana-maggiore-december-r20e600894977a1>)
- [Fontana Maggiore \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pisano-nicola-r5e9f258e7f0e16/fontana-maggiore-detail-r4a41019a795956>)
- [Fontana Maggiore \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pisano-nicola-r5e9f258e7f0e16/fontana-maggiore-detail-r8509fe47216c80>)
- [Fontana Maggiore \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pisano-nicola-r5e9f258e7f0e16/fontana-maggiore-detail-rd3a6c0ef6f121d>)
- [Fontana Maggiore: Ecclesia Romana](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pisano-nicola-r5e9f258e7f0e16/fontana-maggiore-ecclesia-romana-rf827229fbc0f50>)
- [Fontana Maggiore: February](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pisano-nicola-r5e9f258e7f0e16/fontana-maggiore-february-r3c51d5500c4f81>)
- [Fontana Maggiore: January](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pisano-nicola-r5e9f258e7f0e16/fontana-maggiore-january-rb6480e1b1cefab>)
- [Fontana Maggiore: July](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pisano-nicola-r5e9f258e7f0e16/fontana-maggiore-july-r76901acea97779>)
- [Fontana Maggiore: June](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pisano-nicola-r5e9f258e7f0e16/fontana-maggiore-june-r828b287ad713f2>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)