Orion Fountain, Messina, Italy
Date
Circa 1910
Creator
Location
Architecture Library, Hesburgh Libraries
Orion's Fountain in the Piazza del Duomo, Messina, Italy is the work of one of Michelangelo's students, Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli. The Fountain was created to celebrate the completion of the first aqueduct in Messina, in 1547.
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