A Wall Water Feature to Match Your Decor
A Wall Water Feature to Match Your Decor You can find tranquility and quiet when you add a wall fountain in your backyard or patio. Even a little space can include a custom-built one. A spout, a water basin, internal piping, and a pump are necessary for freestanding as well as mounted types. There are any variety of models to choose from most notably conventional, contemporary, classic, or Asian.With its basin placed on the ground, freestanding wall fountains, or floor fountains, are typically quite large in size.
A wall-mounted water feature can either be integrated onto a wall already in existence or built into a wall under construction. Integrating this type of water feature into your landscape adds a cohesiveness to the look you want to attain rather than making it seem as if the fountain was merely added later.
The Beginnings of Contemporary Outdoor Wall Fountains
The Beginnings of Contemporary Outdoor Wall Fountains Himself a learned man, Pope Nicholas V headed the Roman Catholic Church from 1397 till 1455 and was responsible for the translation of scores of age-old texts from their original Greek into Latin. Beautifying Rome and making it the worthy capital of the Christian world was at the heart of his objectives. In 1453 the Pope commissioned the repairing of the Aqua Vergine, an ancient Roman aqueduct which had carried clean drinking water into the city from eight miles away.
The ancient Roman custom of building an awe-inspiring commemorative fountain at the point where an aqueduct arrived, also known as a mostra, was restored by Nicholas V. At the bidding of the Pope, architect Leon Battista Alberti undertook the construction of a wall fountain in the spot where we now find the Trevi Fountain. Adjustments and extensions, included in the restored aqueduct, eventually provided the Trevi Fountain and the well-known baroque fountains in the Piazza del Popolo and Piazza Navona with the necessary water supply.
Bernini's Early Showpieces
Bernini's Early Showpieces Bernini's earliest water fountain, named Barcaccia, is a masterful work of art found at the bottom of the Trinita dei Monti in Piaza di Spagna. To this day, you will see Roman residents and vacation goers filling this area to revel in chit chatter and being among other people. One of the city’s most fashionable meeting spots are the streets surrounding Bernini's fountain, which would certainly have brought a smile to the great Bernini. The master's very first fountain of his professional life was built at around 1630 at the behest of Pope Urbano VIII. An enormous boat slowly sinking into the Mediterranean is the fountain's main theme.
The great flooding of the Tevere that blanketed the whole region with water in the 16th was commemorated by this momentous fountain as recorded by reports dating back to this period. Absenting himself from Italy only once in his life for a long-lasting time period, in 1665 Bernini traveled to France.