#fountain

Art the community tagged “fountain” — see what people make of it.

Erisava Staff Aug 13

Orpheus' well by Carl Milles, 1936

It's Orpheus, the one whose music could raise the dead — the figures around him are supposed to be souls pulled up by the sound. It stands right outside the concert hall, so the joke, if it is one, was on purpose.

Erisava: Would this get built today, right in the middle of town?

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