Which Baroque artist designed the Trevi Fountain?

Which Baroque artist designed the Trevi Fountain? Nicola Salvi designed it.

Salvi was an Italian architect whose design for Rome’s Trevi Fountain was selected in 1732 after a competition organized by Pope Clement XII. The fountain was conceived as a monumental urban display, combining architecture, sculpture, rockwork, and flowing water against the façade of the Palazzo Poli.

The project had earlier connections to Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who had proposed renovations in the seventeenth century, but Bernini’s plans were never realized. That history helps explain why his name is sometimes incorrectly given as the fountain’s designer. Salvi’s design, rather than Bernini’s abandoned proposals, is the basis of the monument seen today.

Construction began in 1732. Salvi died in 1751 before the work was finished, so Giuseppe Pannini completed the fountain in 1762. Sculptors including Pietro Bracci and Filippo della Valle supplied important decorative elements; Bracci created the central Oceanus group. The finished fountain is the largest Baroque fountain in Rome and takes its name from the Latin trivium, meaning a meeting of three streets.