The Major Characteristics of Classic Greek Statues

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Archaic Greeks were well known for providing the first freestanding statuary; up till then, most carvings were constructed out of walls and pillars as reliefs. Youthful, attractive male or female (kore) Greeks were the subject matter of most of the statues, or kouros figures. Symbolizing beauty to the Greeks, the kouroi were designed to appear rigid and always had foot in front; the males were vigorous, robust, and naked. In around 650 BC, the differences of the kouroi became life-sized. The Archaic period was an amazing time of transformation for the Greeks as they expanded into new modes of government, created fresh expressions of art, and achieved information of the men and women and cultures outside of Greece. However, these battles did little to hamper the progression of the Greek civilization.

The Source of Modern Day Outdoor Garden Fountains

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The Source of Modern Day Outdoor Garden Fountains Hundreds of ancient Greek texts were translated into Latin under the authority 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. Reconstruction of the Acqua Vergine, a ruined Roman aqueduct which had carried fresh drinking water into the city from eight miles away, began in 1453 at the bidding of the Pope. Building a mostra, an imposing celebratory fountain built by ancient Romans to memorialize the entry point of an aqueduct, was a custom revived by Nicholas V. The architect Leon Battista Alberti was commissioned by the Pope to construct a wall fountain where we now find the Trevi Fountain. The Trevi Fountain as well as the renowned baroque fountains found in the Piazza del Popolo and the Piazza Navona were eventually supplied with water from the altered aqueduct he had rebuilt.

Early Water Supply Solutions in The City Of Rome

Early Water Supply Solutions in The City Of Rome With the building of the 1st raised aqueduct in Rome, the Aqua Anio Vetus in 273 BC, people who lived on the city’s hillsides no longer had to be dependent solely on naturally-occurring spring water for their demands. Early Water Supply Solutions City Rome 06067200430566296108.jpg

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If residents residing at higher elevations did not have access to springs or the aqueduct, they’d have to count on the other existing systems of the time, cisterns that accumulated rainwater from the sky and subterranean wells that received the water from below ground. From the beginning of the sixteenth century, water was routed to Pincian Hill by way of the subterranean channel of Acqua Vergine. Pozzi, or manholes, were built at regular intervals along the aqueduct’s channel. The manholes made it less demanding to maintain the channel, but it was also possible to use buckets to extract water from the aqueduct, as we witnessed with Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi when he operated the property from 1543 to 1552, the year he passed away. Reportedly, the rainwater cistern on his property wasn’t good enough to meet his needs. Fortunately, the aqueduct sat just below his property, and he had a shaft opened to give him accessibility.