Carla Fendi arts. Her philanthropic concern the "Carla Fendi foundation" was the major patron for the recent restoration of Rome's famed Trevi Fountain. After her husband died in November 2013, her health deteriorated. After a long illness, she died in Rome on June 19, 2017, at the age of 79. Carla Fendi Carla Fendi (July 12, 1937 – June 19, 2017) was an Italian fashion executive and philanthropist who worked for Fendi, along with her sisters and parents. She was also well known for her philanthropy. Carla Fendi was born on July 12, 1937 to Edoardo and Adele Fendi. She had four
Fontana del Tritone, Rome Deluge. The passage that Urban set Bernini to illustrate, was well known to all literate Roman contemporaries: Two finished terracotta "bozzetti" at the Detroit Institute of Arts, securely attributed to Bernini, reflect his exploration of the fountain's themes of the intertwined upended dolphins and the muscular, scaly-tailed Triton. The Triton Fountain is one of those evoked in Ottorino Respighi's "Fontane di Roma". The legend applied to Trevi Fountain has been extended to this: that any visitor who throws a coin into the water (while facing away from the fountain) will have guaranteed their return to Rome. The setting of the