The Source of Modern Outdoor Water Fountains
The Source of Modern Outdoor Water Fountains Hundreds of ancient Greek records were translated into Latin under the auspices of the scholarly Pope Nicholas V, who ruled the Roman Catholic Church from 1397 to 1455. It was important for him to beautify the city of Rome to make it worthy of being known as the capital of the Christian world. In 1453 the Pope commissioned the repairing of the Aqua Vergine, an historic Roman aqueduct which had carried clean drinking water into the city from eight miles away. Building a mostra, a grandiose celebratory fountain built by ancient Romans to memorialize the arrival point of an aqueduct, was a custom revived by Nicholas V. The architect Leon Battista Alberti was directed by the Pope to construct a wall fountain where we now find the Trevi Fountain. The Trevi Fountain as well as the well-known baroque fountains located in the Piazza del Popolo and the Piazza Navona were eventually supplied with water from the modified aqueduct he had reconstructed.
Public Fountains Recorded by History
Public Fountains Recorded by History
Villages and villages relied on functional water fountains to funnel water for cooking, bathing, and cleaning up from nearby sources like lakes, channels, or springs. To generate water flow through a fountain until the late 1800’s, and produce a jet of water, mandated gravity and a water source such as a spring or lake, located higher than the fountain. The beauty and spectacle of fountains make them ideal for historic monuments. If you saw the earliest fountains, you probably would not identify them as fountains. A stone basin, carved from rock, was the 1st fountain, utilized for holding water for drinking and religious purposes. 2000 B.C. is when the earliest known stone fountain basins were used. The earliest civilizations that used fountains relied on gravity to drive water through spigots. The placement of the fountains was driven by the water source, which is why you’ll usually find them along reservoirs, canals, or rivers. Fountains with decorative Gods, mythological monsters, and creatures began to show up in Rome in about 6 B.C., built from rock and bronze. Water for the public fountains of Rome was delivered to the city via a complex system of water aqueducts.
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