Bologna: the Neptune statue will return to its fountain

On December 22, in Bologna, the Neptune statue will be freed from scaffolding and will return “free” to its square to gush water again from its fountain. The announcement comes directly from the City of Bologna, which has created a Facebook event about it.

The statue underwent a conservation and restoration project that started in 2016 and, with a Scientific Committee, established in 2015 by the City Council and University of Bologna (in synergy also with the CNR of Pisa), Istituto Superiore di Conservazione e Restauro di Roma (Iscr), Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici di Bologna, Istituzione Bologna Musei and QN-Il Resto del Carlino, which started a fundraising effort, thanks also to theArt Bonus, which allows part of the money donated to cultural projects to be recouped fiscally in three years.

The statue is nicknamed, in Bolognese dialect, “al Å»igànt” (“the giant”), because of its size, and its fountain was the result of a collaboration between Giambologna, Tommaso Laureti and Zanobio Portigiani, completed in 1566, at the behest of the viceroy Pier Donato Cesi to glorify the papal government of Pope Pius IV.

Ph. credit Paolo Carboni

Bologna: the Neptune statue will return to its fountain

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