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Piazza dei Quiriti is a square in Rome. Immersed in the middle of the Prati rione, named after the inhabitants of the city of "Cures" or "Quirites", namely the Sabines, inhabitants and co-founders of Rome. Another theory sees in Quiriti the inhabitants of Rome, so called because fellow citizens but also worshipers of the god Quirinus, that Romolo ascended to the status of gods. In the center there is a fountain, built in 1928 by the sculptor Attilio Selva (Trieste 1888 1970). commissioned by the governor of Rome, Rieti Veralli Ludovico Spada Potenziani, who had been commissioned by Mussolini for the management of the urban Capital. The fountain is called the fountain of the Caryatids. The realization of Fontana, considered "scandalous" for the presence of four statues of naked women, is considered one of the causes that brought Mussolini to "resign" the governor in 1928 (). The structure of the fountain shows a large basin bottom circular holding an architectonic base which in turn supports the main tank then topped by a tray, supported by four caryatids bare. At the center, a terminal cone. Near the square stands the church of St. Joachim, completed in 1898 by architect Raffaele Ingami, which was to solemnize the priestly and episcopal jubilee of Leo XIII. The fountain in the Piazza dei Quiriti (''Sometimes called: 'La Fontana delle Cariatidi) in Rome was constructed in 1927-1928, designed by the sculptor Attilio Selva after he was inspired by the 17th century designs. When it was first constructed, it caused a scandal due to the sculptures, which include a group of four nude females. The "fountain of the Caryatids" was the first monument of its kind that the municipality, in 1924, decided to erect in the ward. The project was entrusted to the sculptor Attilio Selva, winner of the special competition, which placed the fountain in a garden in the center of the square. The work, which look vaguely Renaissance and baroque, consists of a circular pool slightly raised above the street level, the protruding edge, the center of which is placed a large base, which is also circular, convex edge, on which therefore the 'water slides rather than fall down. The base supports a stocky and short baluster, adorned at the top with the leaves or petals relief from which flows the water and, in the lower half, with a series of small tanks placed around the circumference of the banister. The latter supports a wide central basin from convex very flared, whose center is located, again, a circular base just a little higher than the edge of the tub. On the base are four large sitting nude female figures, caryatids in fact, supporting the arms raised the top basin quatrefoil at the center of the water gushes from a big pine cone. As it did in 1901 for the then Naiad fountain square Esedra even caryatids of Piazza dei Quiriti aroused quite a stir in the most Puritans, not just for the nudity itself, but also for the position in which they are represented the statues, considered by some obscene. Initially it came to controversy correspondence between the sculptor, the Governor of the city and the Catholic Associations, but then intervened even the press, and the result was that the inauguration, scheduled for 21 April 1928, had to be postponed until next May 9 . The controversy, however, were soon appeased, because the art of recent fascist government favored the display of naked bodies that were soon adorned many buildings. ==References== (Thais:Roma-Fountains ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fontana della Piazza dei Quiriti」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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