The Fountain of the Rape of the Sabine Women is one of the eight fountains that adorn the Royal Villa of Naples. The sculptural group (a copy of the original by Giambologna) was created by the Genoese sculptor Tommaso Solari senior around the mid-18th century for the Royal Palace of Caserta and transferred to the villa in the first half of the 19th century as part of a program that included further embellishments of the monumental site. Like the others, this fountain is purely neoclassical. Aurelio De Rose, The Fountains of Naples, Rome, Newton & Compton, 1994.