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Bernini's Four Rivers Fountain |
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by acz / 09.13.2004 |
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Personal Observations |
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The element that surprised me the most was the degree to which art really is political and used as a tool for propaganda. What was especially interesting was the fact that art historians claim that the people viewing the pieces at the time constructed would have understood the intended message. While it's likely that the more obscure messages would have only been picked up on by the more learned groups of individuals, the general iconography would have been more widely understood by the general populace (in contrast to someone today looking at the fountain and not knowing the historical background or iconography commonly used at that time)
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