Editing Triton (mythology) (section)

== Renaissance ==
[[File:Fontaine Triton - Rome (IT62) - 2021-08-30 - 5.jpg|thumb|[[Fontana del Tritone|The Triton Fountain]] (1642–3), by [[Gianlorenzo Bernini]], [[Rome]]]]

Triton was referred to as "trumpeter of Neptune (''Neptuni tubicen'')" in [[Cristoforo Landino]] (d. 1498)'s commentary on Virgil;<ref name="landino" /> this phrasing later appeared in the gloss for "Triton" in [[Marius Nizolius]]'s ''Thesaurus'' (1551),<ref name="nizolius" /> and [[Konrad Gesner]]'s book (1558).<ref name="gesner" />

Triton makes appearance in [[English literature]] as the messenger for the god Poseidon.<ref name="norton" /> In [[Edmund Spenser]]'s ''[[Faerie Queene]]'', Triton blew "his trompet shrill before" Neptune and Amphitrite.<ref name="norton" /><ref name="spenser" /> And in [[John Milton|Milton]] (1637), "[[Lycidas]]"  v. 89, "The Herald of the Sea" refers to Triton.<ref name="milton-lycidas-ed-revard" />

[[Gianlorenzo Bernini]] sculpted the "[[Neptune and Triton]]" fountain (1622–23) now in the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]]<ref name="barrow" /><ref name="wilkins" /> and the  [[Fontana del Tritone|Triton Fountain]] (1642–43) in Bernini Square, Rome.<ref name="dickerson" /><ref>{{harvp|Wilkins|2000|p=406}}, n84</ref> There is differing opinion on what earlier works he may have drawn from near-contemporary works or examples from antiquity. He may have been influenced by Battista di Domenico Lorenzi's ''Alpheus and Arethusa'' (1568–70) or his Triton blowing the conch (late 1570s),<ref>{{harvp|Wilkins|2000}}, p. 390 and n24; p. 405, n 82.</ref> or [[Stoldo Lorenzi]]'s Neptune fountain.<ref name="wittkower" /> But [[Rudolf Wittkower]] has cautioned against exaggerating the influences of Florentine fountains.<ref name="wittkower" /> It has been pointed out that Bernini had access to the Papal collection{{Refn|group=lower-alpha|As a favorite of [[Paul V]] (d. 1621).{{sfnp|Barrow|2018|p=165}} [[Urban VIII]] (elected 1623) became his great patron.{{sfnp|Wilkins|2000|p=393}}}} of genuine Greco-Roman sculptures, and worked with restoring ancient fragments,{{sfnp|Barrow|2018|pp=165–166}} although it is unclear if any Triton was among these. It is within the realm of possibilities that Bernini might have used as his model the ancient [[Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus]], which does include Triton in its composition.{{sfnp|Barrow|2018|pp=174–175}} The Triton of this altar, the Stoldo Lorenzi Triton and the Bernini Triton are all double-tailed, like a pair of human legs.{{sfnp|Barrow|2018|p=175}}

[[File:Alexander-Justice-Samuel-Pepys-Josiah-Burchett-A-general-treatise-of-the-dominion-of-the-sea MG 1104.tif|thumb|A Triton blowing on a conch on this title page of Alexander Justice, Samuel Pepys and Josiah Burchett: ''A general treatise of the dominion of the sea'', 1710]]