What is the name of the famous Baroque fountain in Rome's Piazza Navona designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini?

The famous Baroque fountain in Rome’s Piazza Navona designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini is the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, or Fountain of the Four Rivers.

Commissioned by Pope Innocent X, the fountain was built at the center of Piazza Navona between 1648 and 1651. Bernini’s design supports an ancient Egyptian-style obelisk on a dramatic, seemingly unstable travertine rock formation. Water flows around the sculpted landscape and into the basin below.

The four monumental river gods represent the major rivers of the continents known to Europeans at the time: the Danube for Europe, the Ganges for Asia, the Nile for Africa, and the Río de la Plata for the Americas. Several sculptors executed the figures and details under Bernini’s direction.

The fountain is often confused with Bernini’s Fontana del Tritone in Piazza Barberini, or with the Fontana della Barcaccia near the Spanish Steps, created by Pietro and Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The Fontana di Trevi is also in Rome, but it is a separate, later fountain designed chiefly by Nicola Salvi.