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What figures support the shell in Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Triton Fountain?
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Apollo and Daphne, marble sculpture by Lorenzo Bernini, 1622–25; in the Borghese Gallery, Rome.
In Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Triton Fountain (Fontana del Tritone), located in the Piazza Barberini, four dolphins raise a large shell that supports the sea god, Triton. Triton is depicted blowing water upward out of a conch shell.1