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Pietro Tacca was one of the foremost fountain designer in Florence. In Piazza Santissima Annunziata he set up two fountains conceived as fanciful "capriccios", but on an urban scale. With something of Gothic exuberance, two fantastic creatures support each other back to back, while the basins of the fountain swell out like organic forms. In the centre of the two shells Tacca carved a water-filled run-off, which, being solid, is like an allegory of water.
The fountain is surmounted by imaginative anthropomorphous sea monsters. This eccentric invention is a link to Nordic mythology.
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