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Fountain of the Pine Cone

5/7/2019

 
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Bronze pine cone, Cortile della Pigna, Vatican Museums
Bronze pine cone

The Cortile della Pigna is named after the four-metre-high bronze pine cone (pigna), which originally formed the centrepiece of an ancient Roman fountain.

The pine cone, which was cast by Publius Cincius Salvius (who left his name on the base) in the first or second century CE, was unearthed near the Pantheon.

For centuries it stood in the courtyard in front of the old Basilica di San Pietro; it was moved to its present position in 1608. 

Cortile della Pigna, Courtyard of Pine cone, Vatican Museums
Cortile della Pigna

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