# The Fountain of Oceanus \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GIAMBOLOGNA]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Marble ## Commentary Lower down the stem are perched three crouching river-gods holding upturned urns, which pour water, above a huge granite tazza, which had been the raison d'être of the commission. This represented the ocean, which was believed in those days to surround the earth, and so the complex is called the Fountain of the Ocean to distinguish it from the several other fountains of Neptune. ## Related artworks - [Abduction Scene]() - [Allegory of Astronomy]() - [Allegory of Francesco I de' Medici]() - [Allegory of Prince Francesco I de Medici]() - [Altar of Liberty]() - [Altar of Liberty]() - [Angel]() - [Apollo]() - [Appenine \(detail\)]() - [Appenine]() - [Appenine]() - [Architecture]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()