The Latona Fountain in the Gardens of Versailles lies in the Latona Basin between the Chateau de Versailles and the Grand Canal. On the top tier, there is a statue of the goddess Latona, mother of the sun and moon gods.[1] The fountain operates three times a week during the high season.[2]
The LatonaFountain in the Gardens of Versailles lies in the Latona Basin between the Chateau de Versailles and the Grand Canal. On the top tier, there...
it is one of the largest fountains in the world. Built in a rococo wedding cake style and inspired by the LatonaFountain at the Palace of Versailles...
also known as Latona and the Lycian peasants, is a short tale from Greek mythology centered around Leto (known to the Romans as Latona), the mother of...
peasants. Othea's Epistle's depiction of the Lycian frogs. Fountain of Latona, Versailles. Latona with the infants Apollo and Diana in Delos. Leto on an ancient...
Vert – the expanse of lawn that stretches between the LatonaFountain and the Apollo Fountain – achieved its final size and definition under the direction...
opposite direction. The formal garden is filled with fountains, a copy of the Versailles LatonaFountain, and statues in both the classical style typical...
A fountain, from the Latin "fons" (genitive "fontis"), meaning source or spring, is a decorative reservoir used for discharging water. It is also a structure...
Fountains in France provided drinking water to the inhabitants of the ancient Roman cities of France, and to French monasteries and villages during the...
Nôtre planned a hedge maze of unadorned paths in an area south of the LatonaFountain near the Orangerie. In 1668 Jean de La Fontaine published his first...
Versailles Neptune and LatonaFountains, Versailles, France Longwood Gardens Water Feature, Kenneth Square, Pennsylvania, "Crystal Fountains changes its name...
sculptor he made a Latona with the infants Apollo and Artemis in Chatsworth House (1824) and the copy of a stolen satyr in the Fountain of Neptune, Florence...
Baltimore, Maryland. Marble replica (1872) at Metropolitan Museum of Art. Latona and Her Children – Apollo and Diana (1871–72), plaster, Smithsonian American...
Virgil's Aeneid, when Nisus addresses Luna/the Moon, he calls her "daughter of Latona." In works of art, the two goddesses were mostly distinguished; Selene is...
of justice. Juturna, goddess of fountains, wells, and springs. Juventas, goddess of youth. Lares, household gods. Latona, goddess of light. Laverna, patroness...
1541-1542, Galleria Estense, Modena Apollo and Daphen Pyramus and Thisbe Latona Turns the Peasaants of Lycia into Frogs Apollo and Marsyas Semele Burned...
Luna marble and concrete, it housed the cult statues of Apollo, Diana and Latona, in addition to the Sibylline books. Suetonius (c. 70–130 AD), lawyer and...
epithet; and besides, Fontenrose argues, Ovid is unlikely to have thought Latona, Circe, Pyrrha and Diana as the same figure simply because he uses "Titania"...
Loth Four Ovidian mythological scenes by Giuseppe Chiari Apollo and Daphne Latona curses the Lycians transforming them into Frogs Mercury entrusts Bacchus...
December 19, 1973. Retrieved September 4, 2023. Judge Ronald House designation Latona/Ace Hotel designation Naomi Ishisaka (November 4, 2019). "Hidden spring...
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