The marble and stone basins of Fontana del Nettuno and the nearly identical Fontana del Moro at the south end of Piazza Navona were created in 1574, but only Fontana del Moro had statues from the beginning. The Neptune fountain had no statues for over 300 years, until they were added in 1873-78. The statue of Neptune fighting a giant octopus was sculpted by Antonio della Bitta, and the remaining statues including the mermaids (nereids) were sculpted by Gregorio Zappalà, depicting a scene from Greek mythology.

For more images and data on the Neptune Fountain, go to this page dedicated to this fountain and its sculptures.

There are two separate concrete sculptures, each with two mermaids, in Bologna’s Montagnola Park.  They were created in 1888 by local artist Diego Sarti, for the 1888 National Art Exhibition.

You can find many more photos and more information on the page I created for these sculptures here.

The Fountain of Neptune (Fontana di Nettuno) in Bologna dates back to 1565, and was created by Jean de Boulogne, also known as Giambologna.   It was a controversial artwork when it was created, and still raises eyebrows even today.

The fountain, also known as “The Giant” is located exactly in the ancient center of the city, at the intersection of the 2 main roads in the city in Roman times.

The entire sculpture was created in bronze and stone in the years 1563 to 1567 by Flemish-born sculptor Giambologna. It was commissioned in celebration of Pope Pius IV by the Pope’s nephew Charles Borromeo.

See this page for more photos and more data on this fountain and its four lactating mermaids.

A fabulous sculpture, Der Seltene Fang (The Rare Catch) by Ernst Herter, is found in Berlin’s Viktoriapark. It depicts a fisherman struggling to keep hold of a twin-tailed mermaid caught in his net.

Berlin’s Viktoriapark was opened in 1894, and features a large manmade waterfall (Kreutzberger Wasserfall) and several ponds, statues, sculptures and monuments.

While most of Viktoriapark is at higher elevation, this pond and the statue are at street level, near the bottom of the waterfall.

Ernst Herter also created the Lorelei Fountain in The Bronx in New York, as a memorial to German poet Heinrich Heine.

For more photos and information, visit the page for the Viktoriapark mermaid here.

The little Malente Mermaid sits on a rock just a few feet from a lakeside trail by the Dieksee Lake in northern Germany. 

She is a casual and carefree water sprite, playing with her hair while getting some sun.

More details and pictures on the new page dedicated to this mermaid here.

Opposite the famous Széchenyi Thermal Baths in Budapest is the “Sellők díszkút” (mermaid fountain), created in 1978 by artists Jenő Kerényi and István Szabó.

See more details and many more images at the full page for this fountain of mermaids, here.

News arrived just today of another mermaid sculpture – this time on Corsica, in the commercial harbor of Bastia.

This mermaid sculpture was created by the Italian-French sculptor Gabriel Diana in 2002.

The mermaid is made in bronze, and is seated on a rock of raw marble, between two large propeller blades (from a propeller whose third blade was damaged in this harbor).

In a sense the mermaid is like the pearl in a half open oyster.  The sculpture is just over 8′ tall.

She is a sister sculpture to the mermaid in Ile Rousse.

For all the details and more images, see the page here.