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The basic model is thought to have been the column in the Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, from 1614.
By the 17th century only this column survived; in 1614 it was transported to Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore and crowned with a bronze statue of the Virgin and Child.