Print on linen, the principal figure is the statue of Neptune by Giambologna, placed in Piazza Fonatana, in the background we see the beginning of Indipendence street. The flowers’ bunch has almost covered the Council Palace. This fan has been prepared to celebrate the 8th centenary of the University of Bologna (1088).
The wooden sticks present a light golden engraving.
Historical notes
Jean de Boulogne, called Giambologna, was born in 1529 in Douai (Fiandre), he lived in Italy from 1550, first in Rome then in Florence where he died in 1608.
In 1563 he has been ordered a bronze statue of Neptune to put in the fountain, projected by the Sicilian architect Tommaso Laureti, placed in Piazza Fontana close to Piazza Maggiore in Bologna.
"Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail."
Leonardo Da Vinci
