The Trevi Fountain - Fontana di TREVI in Rome by Silva Wischeropp

The Trevi Fountain (Italian: Fontana di Trevi) is a monumental fountain in the Piazza di Trevi in front of the Palazzo Poli in Rome. It was created between 1732 and 1762 by the architect Nicola Salvi for Pope Clement XII and is considered a Baroque masterpiece. The Trevi Fountain is the largest fountain in Rome and one of the most famous fountains in the world. It is supplied with 80 million litres of water per day by the Acqua Vergine.
The Trevi Fountain consists of a palace façade with a triumphal arch in front of it. In front of it, sea creatures cavort on a rocky landscape over which the water pours into a large, shallow basin. The material used is travertine from Tivoli and marble from Carrara. At 26 metres high and around 49 metres wide, it is the largest fountain in Rome and one of the most famous fountains in the world.
Stylistically, it belongs to the late Baroque period, in transition to early Classicism.
In Fellini's La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life) from 1960, Anita Ekberg takes a nightly bath in the fountain together with Marcello Mastroianni. This is one of the most famous scenes in film history, which contributed in no small way to the popularity of the fountain with tourists.

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Silva Wischeropp was born in the Hanseatic city of Wismar in the former GDR. Today she lives and works in Berlin. As an experienced and passionate travel photographer whose interests span a broad range, she focuses on portraiture, street life, reportage, documentary, travel, tourism, landscape and nature. In addition, she is known for her recordings in the fields of architecture and fashion. Since 2016, her new repertoire includes surreal digital photo collages. For 20 years she has been known in Germany and abroad as a creative photo artist. Her works have been widely published and exhibited. "The photographic image process represents my personal work and creation area. This means dealing with image worlds, politics, human needs and sensitivities. The camera expands my scope to meet that other reality. Photography makes me happy, creates joy, closes boundaries, opens new doors, widens horizons. The camera teaches me to see, to sharpen the view, to capture moments, to perceive fleeting moments that are not visible to others. I am a creative person, a picture-maker, who draws on herself, does not copy a lot and develops her own imagery. So I move between the poles, reach different fixed points, look behind the scenes. Out of the thousandfold existing I manage to bring out something unique, unique moments of the picture."

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