Mrs. Charles MacVeagh

Name: Fountains of Papal Rome — Trinità de' Monti
Author: Mrs. Charles MacVeagh

Fountains of Papal Rome — Trinità de' Monti

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“Fountains of Papal Rome — Trinità de' Monti”, is a work by Mrs. Charles MacVeagh. It explores elements such as the Villa Medici, fountain and terraces.

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Mrs. Charles MacVeagh, Fountains of Papal Rome — Trinità de' Monti

“ Even the fierce religious wars of the sixteenth century could not stamp out the seed sown by the soldiers' stories and by the works of art left by homesick Italian masters in Fontainebleau. One by one the eager French artists crossed the Alps, and they came in ever-increasing numbers when the genius of Richelieu brought order and amenity into French life, and when Richelieu's contemporary, Maffeo Barberini, for many years papal legate to France, had become Pope Urban VIII. To reach Rome all of these voyagers had to endure severe physical hardships, and some of them never returned to France. ”

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Mrs. Charles MacVeagh, Fountains of Papal Rome — Trinità de' Monti

“ The octagonal basin which receives this copious stream is sunk into the ground and its shadowed waters have all the unobtrusive beauty of a quiet and sequestered pool There is no sculpture, no decoration. With unerring taste, the artist has made his appeal to the eye through fundamental and universal elements of beauty. Grace of line and of proportion, contrast of solid rock and flowing water, the impression of abundance and perpetuity, symmetry, contrast, suggestion these are the simple qualities out of which he composed his Fountain of the Brimming Bowl. ”

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Mrs. Charles MacVeagh, Fountains of Papal Rome — Trinità de' Monti

“ Five years after this event Cardinal Alessandro de' Medici became Pope; so the Villa Medici, as well as the Church of the Trinita de' Monti, had, in spite of their Italian names, many affiliations with far-off Paris; and partly on account of these associations, partly for the sake of the marvellous view, their terraces became the favorite haunt of those artists who, in the early days of the Sei Cento, began to find their way to Rome.
In the continuity of the development of art there are few events more interesting than the appearance of the French art student in Rome. ”

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Mrs. Charles MacVeagh, Fountains of Papal Rome — Trinità de' Monti

“ Seventy-six years later Napoleon, with his supreme instinct for effect (a possession he shared with Julius Csesar) , [2] and not unmindful of the French association with this quarter of the city, removed the French Academy from the old Mancini Palace and lodged it permanently and most impressively where it now is, in the Villa Medici, the villa built by that family which had given two queens to France. So the fountain of the Trinitik de' Monti is still a feature in the life of the French artists at Rome ”

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Mrs. Charles MacVeagh, Fountains of Papal Rome — Trinità de' Monti

“ The footpaths leading upward must have been a rather steep climb; but five years before the founding of the Academy an event occurred which was to make the ascent of the hillside not only easy but delightful. In 1661 Rome came into the possession of a large sum of money left to the city by the learned French gentleman, Etienne de GuSfier, for the express purpose of constructing a magnificent stone stairway which should cover this slope of the Pincian Hill, and unite for all time the Campus Martius with the terraces above. ”

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Mrs. Charles MacVeagh, Fountains of Papal Rome — Trinità de' Monti

“ The greatest of them Le Poussin and Claude died in Rome. Painters, engravers, sculptors, and architects came to these terraces to worship and to work, and to this day the galleries and palaces of northern Europe cherish the pictures planned or sketched abdut the Fountain of the Brimming Bowl.
Pope Urban VIII, who died in i644, was himself half French, not only by virtue of his temperament and genius, but also by the trend of his sympathies and his foreign policy. Under his enlightened patronage, the artists of France found a congenial home in the Eternal City. ”

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Mrs. Charles MacVeagh, Fountains of Papal Rome — Trinità de' Monti

“ The stairway was long in building, and during its construction the connection between the Academy in the Mancini Palace and the old terraces of the TrinitA de 5 Monti may have been slender; but in 1726 the Scalinata was opened with great pomp, and once again French artists could spend long hours on their beloved terraces. ”

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