According to legend, the Sun God Helios was a beautiful deity endowed with great strength and the brilliant crown of the Sun. With strength and seriousness, Helios navigates his chariot pulled by four steeds over the skies, carrying out his sacred task of carrying the sun from East to West and lighting up the world. The Sun King, Helios, served as a symbol of a powerful civilization.

The Apollo Belvedere original sculpture is the source of the Sun God sculpture in Sunset Town. This work of art, which was produced in the middle of the second century AD, is thought to be a Roman replica of an original bronze figure that the Greek sculptor Leochares had made between 330 and 320 BC. As of right now, the sculpture is housed at Rome, Italy’s Vatican Museums collection.

The massive blocks of white Carrara marble used in the Sun God Fountain’s careful hand carving come from quarries in the Tuscan region of the Apuan Alps. Other well-known marble artworks have been mined and sculpted in this region for thousands of years prior to the Roman era. These quarries provided the stones that renowned artist Michelangelo used to fashion some of the most famous statues in art history. Throughout the course of two years, every step of the carving process was painstakingly completed by hand utilizing age-old Roman marble sculpting methods.

Frilli Gallery, a well-known family-run business established in Florence in 1860 by sculptor Antonio Frilli, is the creator of the Sun God Fountain. The Frilli Gallery has been producing sculptures in both classical and modern forms for the past 150 years, employing materials like marble and bronze.