Aboundance Perusia

In the XIIIth century, a little bit earlier than Giotto's frescoes in San Francesco of Assisi, the city of Perusia started an urbanistic project in order to embellish and glorify the prestige of the city. Not only the acquedotto was built (see previous post), but two fountains were commissioned: Arnolfo di Cambio no more existent's fountain and Giovanni Pisano's fountain, more known as fontana maggiore. To be able to bring water to city and, by consequence, to its inhabitants, was meant to prove Perugia's sense of civic protection. Here above, you see one of the numerous sculptures in the fontana maggiore, more precisely the sculpture of Perusia, representend as the abundance domina set in the extreme opposite of the sculpture representing Roma, its worst enemy!