Fountain of Minerva
Fountain of Minerva. Sculpture of a scene from the Trojan War from Homer’s Iliad. Source: nethercraft.com.
Created by sculptor Julian Baksik, a graduate of the University of Michigan art school, this fountain is a combination of the compositions of the Trevi and Triton Fountains in Rome, the waterspouts at Lake Como’s Villa d’Este and the French Renaissance sculpture Diana D’anet at the Louvre (Leblanc 2012). Located in the yard of Kevin Nickerson on Ann Arbor’s NW side, Minerva, wrathful with Ajax, beckons Neptune to raise a storm to smite the Achaean fleet in a scene taken from the Trojan War (nethercraft.com). The monumental sculpture group made of acrylic, epoxy, and fiberglass to resist weathering took two trips to Rome and more than 10,000 hours of hands-on work by Baksik as well as a team of volunteers over a span of two years to complete.
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