Francesco Camilliani

Camilliani was aided in the grand project by the garzoni of his studio, including the Florentine Michelangelo Naccherino (1550–1622), or Vagherino Fiorentino.

In its original site, Giorgio Vasari called it a "most stupendous fountain that has not its peer in Florence or perhaps in Italy.

[4] It was dismantled into six hundred and forty-four pieces and transported to Palermo, and set up there by Camillo Camilliani, who had to concentrate its elements in the more constricted urban space, and to oversee some additions to render it more suitable for Sicily, which included a Venus by Antonio Gagini.

[6] The sculpture of the fountain depicts fables, monsters, and nymphs all spraying jets of water, which also falls and cascades between them.

Once locally known as the Fontana della Vergogna, the "fountain of shame”, because of the nude statues that stand around the base of each tier, it is one of the few true pieces of High Renaissance art in Palermo.