The Montagnola Fountain

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On the 28th June 1896 King Umberto I and the queen Margherita celebrated the scenographic staircase that makes the access possible to the Montagnola Park; this staircase was ideated by Tito Azzolini and Attilio Muggia. In the centre of this impressive staircase is a fountain, created by Diego Sarti and Pietro Veronesi and based on the drawings of Muggia and Azzolini. This sculpture works around a classical theme, and not around any sort ot noble morality common with public works of the time. Instead the sculpture works on the evident sensuality of the nymph who is attempting to save herself from an octopus' tentables. A horse comes to her aid, which with his passion and strength succeeds in saving her.  Diego Sarti places a highly sexual scene in a public space, something unseen since the prosperous mermaids of the Neptune Fountain of the Sixteenth Century.