ID: 901001937 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001937	Record Type: Named Legendary Thing

	Fountain of Narcissus (legendary fountain)

Note: Theme from Medieval literature, in which a fountain inscribed "here died beautiful Narcissus" is intended as a warning to those too self-involved to fall in love, often as a caveat to a young woman who refuses her lover. Related to the Fountain of Love theme, and sometimes considered the same thing.

Names:

	Fountain of Narcissus (legendary fountain) (preferred,English-P,D,P)
	Fontana di Narciso (legendary fountain) (Italian-P,D,P)

Hierarchical Position:

		Miscellaneous Topics (P)
		....<Miscellaneous Legendary Places> (P)
		........Fountain of Narcissus (legendary fountain) (I)

Related Iconography:

	associated with .... Narcissus
	..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Greek iconography, Greek characters, Narcissus (Greek character)) [901001938]

	meaning/usage overlaps with .... Fountain of Love
	..........(Miscellaneous Topics, Miscellaneous Legendary Places, Fountain of Love (legendary fountain)) [901000788]

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... fountain
	.....(water distribution structures, hydraulic structures by function, hydraulic structures, single built works by function, single built works by specific type, single built works (built environment), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), Built Environment (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Fountain of Narcissus (legendary fountain)
	................Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
	Fontana di Narciso (legendary fountain)
	................Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-) inscription on print

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Spaas and Selous, Echoes of Narcissus (2000)