Three Coins in the Fountain (film) Three Coins in the Fountain (film) Three Coins in the Fountain is a 1954 American romantic comedy film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Rossano Brazzi, and Maggie McNamara. Written by John Patrick, the film is about three American women working in Rome who dream of finding romance in the Eternal City. The film's main title song "Three Coins in the Fountain" (sung by an uncredited Frank Sinatra) went on to become an enduring standard. The story was adapted by John Patrick from the novel "Coins in the Fountain" by John H.
Fountain of Neptune, Bologna Fountain of Neptune, Bologna The Fountain of Neptune () is a monumental civic fountain located in the eponymous square, "Piazza del Nettuno", next to Piazza Maggiore, in Bologna, Italy Its bronze figure of "Neptune", extending his reach in a lordly gesture of stilling and controlling the waters, is an early work by Giambologna, completed about 1567. An innovation of Giambologna's fountain designs is the fantastic and non-geometrical forms he gave to the basins into which water splashed and flowed, "curiously folded, bulging and elastic in form", as Rosalind Grippi remarked. The fountain is a model example of Mannerist taste of