Museo dell'Ara Pacis - Exterior
Fountain
Fountains are an essential feature of Rome's famous cityscape, providing convenient meeting places, relief from the summer heat, and sometimes dazzling displays of sculpture and water. In comparison with the most famous Roman fountains, the fountain at the Ara Pacis is small in scale and without figurative sculpture. But it attempts to provide some of the same pleasures, whether or not people are visiting the museum. Like the museum building, it's design contrasts with traditional Roman design, based instead on the international style of the late 20th century, of which Meier is a leading exemplar.
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 Looking across fountain to Church of San Rocco Augusteo photo Oct. 2008 |
 Looking directly north across fountain to museum front. photo July 2008
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 Looking directly south across fountain. photo July 2008
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 Looking across Via di Ripetta to southeast corner of fountain. photo Oct. 2008 |
 Looking directly west; in distance buildings on opposite side of Tiber River. photo May 2008
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 Entrance to fountain. photo May 2008 |
 Notice. photo July 2008 |
 Popular gathering place. photo July 2008
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 Characteristic Richard Meier sculptural design. photo July 2008 |
 Marble surfaces. photo May 2010
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 Uniformly rectalinear design of water jets: 4 rows of 4 jets each, evenly spaced and of uniform height. photo May 2010 |
 Changing daylight. photo May 2010
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