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Bernini's Fontana dei 4 fiumi (fountain of the four rivers) in Rome's Piazza Navona. The statue seen here represents the Rio della Plata River and the riches of the Americas. In the background is the church of San't Agnese in Agone. ^^^The fountain represents the four continents (as had been discovered at the time) and their rivers, the obelisk in the centre symbolises Christ and the triumphing Roman Catholic Church over the whole world. The figure of Nile, sculpted by Jacopo Antonio Fancelli, represents Africa; the Danube, by Antonio Raggi, Europe; the Ganges, by Claude Poussin, Asia; and the Plate, by Francesco Baratta, the Americas, discovered a century and a half earlier. The figure of the Nile has his head covered with a hood, symbolising the unknown source of the river at the time. Some guides suggest that Bernini made this personification hold his hand as if protecting himself from the imminent collapse of the church, which was designed by Borromini, to represent the tense relationship between the two, but the fountain was completed before the church's façade so the apparent gesture was not intentional.
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