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Comment: Some streets near the Pantheon and Piazza della Minerva.
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44.Obelisco.su.Elefante.Bernini * An elephant carrying an obelisk. This Bernini's sculpture, located in Piazza della Minerva, according to the artist represents the idea that to support a solid knowledge, a robust mind is needed - as it is written on one sculpture's side. * 1944 x 2916 * (1.22MB)

45.Obelisco.su.Elefante * The original project had an elephant carrying the obelisk on his back, but a rival artist, whose project for the statue was discarded, despite Bernini's protests convinced the pope to fill the gap between the elephant's belly and the basement with a stone cube, to follow the old idea that no perpendicular weight should rest on any empty vacuum. * 1322 x 1907 * (524KB)
 
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