The Circulation of Water Fountain Manufacturing Knowledge in Europe

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The Circulation of Water Fountain Manufacturing Knowledge in Europe Throughout the European countries, the chief means of spreading useful hydraulic information and fountain design suggestions were the circulated pamphlets and illustrated books of the time, which added to the advancement of scientific innovation. An internationally recognized innovator in hydraulics in the later part of the 1500's was a French fountain engineer, whose name has been lost to history. With imperial commissions in Brussels, London and Germany, he began his work in Italy, building knowledge in garden design and grottoes with built-in and imaginative water hydraulics. He authored a book entitled “The Principles of Moving Forces” toward the end of his lifetime while in France that became the fundamental text on hydraulic technology and engineering. The publication updated important hydraulic breakthroughs since classical antiquity as well as explaining modern hydraulic technologies. Archimedes, the developer of the water screw, had his work highlighted and these integrated a mechanized way to move water. Two concealed vessels warmed by the sun's rays in an space next to the creative water feature were presented in an illustration. The heated water expands and then ascends and closes the water lines consequently activating the fountain. Yard ponds as well as pumps, water wheels, and water feature designs are incorporated in the book.

The Father Of Roman Public Fountain Design

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In Rome’s city center, there are many easily recognized water features. Nearly all of them were designed, conceived and constructed by one of the finest sculptors and designers of the 17th century, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. His abilities as a water fountain designer and also as a city architect, are evident throughout the streets of Rome. Bernini's father, a renowned Florentine sculptor, mentored his young son, and they ultimately moved to Rome, in order to fully express their art, primarily in the form of public water fountains and water features. The juvenile Bernini was an exemplary worker and won encouragement and patronage of important painters as well as popes. Initially he was celebrated for his sculpting skills. Most famously in the Vatican, he used a base of experience in ancient Greek architecture and melded it flawlessly with Roman marble. Although many artists had an influence on his work, Michelangelo had the most profound effect.