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The fountain was prepared in a workshop and then assembled in the centre of the square; it was made of stone from Assisi. The fountain consists of two concentric polygonal marble basins, on top a bronze cup (by the artisan Rosso Padellaio from Perugia) decorated with a coloured bronze group of feminine figures (perhaps nymphs) out of which comes the water.  
The lower basin is made up of 25 mirrors, each divided into 2 tiles that describe the 12 months of the year, each of which is related to a zodiac symbol. Each month is connected to scenes of daily life and the farming work that characterize it. As in other contemporary sculptures from Europe, in which the months are represented, here the manual work obtains dignity. In this basin manual labour is in fact represented together with the arti liberali (liberal arts), with philosophy, with characters from the Bible and the history of Rome; in this specific order:
The month of January (a gentleman and his wife at the hearth – Aquarius)
The month of February (two fishermen - Pisces)
The month of March (the "spinario" and the pruning of the vineyard - Aries)
The month of April (two allegories of spring - Taurus)  The month of May (two Knights on Falconry - Gemini)
The month of June (the harvest and flailing - Cancer)
The month of July (the threshing and the division of wheat - Lion)
The month of August (the fig harvest - Virgo)
The month of September (the crushing of must - Libra and the grape harvest)The month of October (the filling up of casks - Scorpion and the construction of casks)
The month of November (the ploughing - Sagittarius and the sowing)
The month of December (the slaughter of the pork - Capricorn)
The Lion Guelph and the Griffin of Perugia
Grammar and DialecticRhetoric and Arithmetic
Geometry and Music
Astronomy and Philosophy
Two eagles, on the right one the signature of Giovanni Pisano
The Original Sin and the expulsion from EdenSamson kills the Lion and Samson and Dalila
Davide triumphant and Golia defeated
Romulus and Remus (represented as two falconers)
The she-wolf that fed Romulus, Remus and their mother Rea Silvia
Two of Aesop's fables (the fox and the crane and the wolf and the lamb)
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
		
			
			
		
In the upper basin, 24 statues at the corners, representing saints and mythological and biblical characters from the New and Old Testament. As in the lower basin, there is no contrast between the new Judeo-Cristian civilization and the ancient Greek-Roman civilization, they are harmonized and placed in continuity. The basin can be seen as a wind rose, where at each cardinal point there are relevant characters; i.e., the representation of Augusta Perusia with the cornucopia on her lap, which draw nourishment from the ears of wheat brought by the lady of Chiusi (once the granary of Perugia) and from the fish offered by Domina Iacus, the nymph of the Lake Trasimeno. Then follows all the characters related to the city. In the opposite cardinal point, to the North, Euliste, the legendary founder of Perugia. To the West, Rome, related to the representation of the Roman Church and of Divinitas Excelsa and of Saints Pietro and Paolo. Another important character to the East is S. Giovanni Battista, for the role of the water as an essential and sacred element; it is associated with Salomè and other biblical characters. 
The representation of the 24 statues are: San PietroThe Church of Rome
Roma caput mundi (Rome capital of the world)
Divinitas Excelsa  
San Paolo
A Cleric of San LorenzoSan Lorenzo, patron saint of the city
The nymph of the territory of Chiusi or Domina Clusi
Augusta Perusia
The nymph of Trasimeno or Domina lacus, who offers the fish to Perugia
San Ercolano, patron saint of the cityThe Cleric traitor of San Ercolano
Saint Benedict  
John the Baptist
Solomon
David
Salomè  
Mosè
Matteo da Correggio, podestà of Perugia
The Archangel Michele
Euliste, the legendary founder of Perugia
Melchisedec
Ermanno da Sassoferrato, capitano del Popolo
The Victory
In the lower frame of the second basins, Latin verses are carved; epigraphic abbreviation provides information on the authors and the date of the sculpture, and they are an invitation to examine and interpret the fountain: "Guarda tu che passi questa fontana dal lieto mormorio, se osservi bene puoi vedere cose mirabili…." (Look, you who pass by this fountain with its babbling, if you look closer you can see wonderful things.)
Bible Solomon Rosso Padellaio Rhetoric Astronomy Golia Lake Trasimeno San Ercolano Rea Silvia Dalila Mosè The Archangel Michele Giovanni Pisano Giovanni Philosophy Saint Benedict Melchisedec John the Baptist Arithmetic Romulus and Remus she-wolf San Pietro David Trasimeno San Lorenzo history of Rome Dialectic arti liberali Aesop San Paolo Davide Grammar spinario Perugia Geometry Salomè Music Samson Assisi