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
Graziano Cecchini Graziano Cecchini Graziano Cecchini (born 21 October 1953) is an Italian artist and activist best known for his works of "vandalism" art. On 19 October 2007, Cecchini poured a can of dye into the Trevi Fountain in Rome, causing the fountain to spout red water for several hours. He also left behind several leaflets urging the public to "embrace colour". Rome police identified Cecchini as the vandal from CCTV footage and placed him under investigation for allegedly damaging a historical or artistic building. Cecchini later took responsibility for the vandalism on the TV show "Le Iene": "There is the Red