Question

Which of the following best describes an Italian Baroque characteristic of Gianlorenzo Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers?


The fountain served as a public emblem of the Catholic Church's dominanc by bringing clean drinking water to the people.

an elaborate, symbolic structure that had little practical use


a tribute to High Renaissance order and restraint


C

Answer 1

I greatly agree with the first half of A, but the "by bringing clean water..." is not so hot of a description. The statue <<The base of the fountain is a basin from the centre of which travertine rocks rise to support four river gods and above them, an ancient Egyptian obelisk surmounted with the Pamphili family emblem of a dove with an olive twig. Collectively, they represent four major rivers of the four continents through which papal authority had spread: the Nile representing Africa, the Danube representing Europe, the Ganges representing Asia, and the Río de la Plata representing America.>

So if the writer of this question means by bringing clean water...means bringing catholic religion to the world, then A is the best answer.

Answer 2

thanks and yeah i did reveiw for it it was A