At What Point Did Water Features Emerge?

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Pope Nicholas V, himself a learned man, ruled the Roman Catholic Church from 1397 to 1455 during which time he commissioned many translations of old classical Greek documents into Latin. It was important for him to beautify the city of Rome to make it worthy of being called the capital of the Christian world. Reconstruction of the Acqua Vergine, a desolate Roman aqueduct which had carried clean drinking water into the city from eight miles away, began in 1453 at the behest of the Pope. A mostra, a monumental commemorative fountain constructed by ancient Romans to mark the point of arrival of an aqueduct, was a tradition which was restored by Nicholas V. The Trevi Fountain now occupies the space formerly filled with a wall fountain built by Leon Battista Albert, an architect commissioned by the Pope. Changes and extensions, included in the repaired aqueduct, eventually supplied the Trevi Fountain and the well-known baroque fountains in the Piazza del Popolo and Piazza Navona with the necessary water supply.

The Hellenic Republic: Architectural Sculpture

The Hellenic Republic: Architectural Sculpture Traditionally, most sculptors were compensated by the temples to decorate the involved columns and archways with renderings of the gods, but as the era came to a close it became more accepted for sculptors to present ordinary people as well because many Greeks had begun to think of their institution as superstitious rather than sacred. Portraiture became prevalent as well, and would be welcomed by the Romans when they conquered the Greeks, and on occasion wealthy households would commission a representation of their progenitors to be placed inside their grand familial tombs. It is amiss to think that the arts had one function during The Classical Greek period, a time period of artistic advancement during which the use of sculpture and other art forms evolved. Hellenic Republic: Architectural Sculpture 1600432591020926.jpg

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Whether to fulfill a visual craving or to rejoice in the figures of religion, Greek sculpture was an inventive approach in the ancient world, which could be what draws our interest currently.

The Results of the Norman Invasion on Anglo Saxon Gardens

The Results of the Norman Invasion on Anglo Saxon Gardens Anglo-Saxons felt extraordinary changes to their day-to-day lives in the latter half of the eleventh century due to the accession of the Normans. Architecture and horticulture were skills that the Normans excelled in, trumping that of the Anglo-Saxons at the time of the occupation. But before focusing on home-life or having the occasion to consider domestic architecture or decoration, the Normans had to subjugate an entire population. Castles were more fundamental designs and often built on blustery hills, where their people devoted both time and space to practicing offense and defense, while monasteries were major stone buildings, mostly positioned in the widest, most fruitful hollows. Results Norman Invasion Anglo Saxon Gardens 30829106424040493644.jpg

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The barren fortresses did not provide for the peaceful avocation of gardening. The best example of the early Anglo-Norman style of architecture existent presently is Berkeley Castle. The keep is rumored to have been developed during the time of William the Conqueror. As a method of deterring assailants from tunneling under the walls, an immense terrace encompasses the building. On one of these terraces lies a charming bowling green: it is coated in grass and flanked by an old yew hedge that is created into the shape of rough ramparts.