The Triton sculpture now at the Rijksmuseum was created by Bernini as a study for the Fountain of the Moor on Rome’s Piazza Navona, commissioned by Pope Innocent X in the 1650s. In it ...

In the mid-17th century, Pope Innocent X commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini—Rome’s premiere Baroque sculptor—to redecorate two of the fountains in the city’s famous Piazza Navona.

Bernini is known for works such as the lifesize Apollo and Daphne in Rome’s Galleria Borghese, designing St Peter’s Square and creating the celebrated Fontana dei quattro fiumi (Fountain of ...