The Father Of Rome's Fountain Design And Style

The Father Of Rome's Fountain Design And Style In Rome’s city center, there are many famous water fountains. One of the most distinguished sculptors and artists of the 17th century, almost all of them were designed, conceived and built by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Also a city designer, he had abilities as a water feature designer, and records of his life's work are evident throughout the avenues of Rome. Bernini's father, a renowned Florentine sculptor, guided his young son, and they eventually settled in Rome, to fully exhibit their art in the form of public water features and water fountains. An diligent worker, the young Bernini received praise and patronage of many popes and important designers. He was originally renowned for his sculpture. Working faultlessly with Roman marble, he made use of a base of expertise in the classic Greek architecture, most obviously in the Vatican. Though he was influenced by many, Michelangelo had the most profound impact on him, both personally and professionally.

The Original Water Fountain Manufacturers

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The Original Water Fountain Manufacturers Multi-talented people, fountain artists from the 16th to the late 18th century frequently functioned as architects, sculptors, artists, engineers and highly educated scholars all in one. Leonardo da Vinci, a Renaissance artist, was celebrated as an ingenious genius, inventor and scientific master. The forces of nature led him to analyze the qualities and movement of water, and due to his curiosity, he carefully recorded his observations in his now celebrated notebooks. Early Italian fountain designers altered private villa settings into inventive water exhibits complete with symbolic meaning and natural beauty by combining imagination with hydraulic and horticultural talent. The splendors in Tivoli were provided by the humanist Pirro Ligorio, who was renowned for his skill in archeology, engineering and garden design. Well versed in humanist themes as well as classical scientific readings, some other water feature makers were masterminding the fascinating water marbles, water attributes and water antics for the countless lands near Florence.

A Brief History of the Early Outdoor Public Fountains

A Brief History of the Early Outdoor Public Fountains Water fountains were initially practical in purpose, used to convey water from rivers or springs to towns and villages, providing the residents with fresh water to drink, bathe, and prepare food with. A source of water higher in elevation than the fountain was required to pressurize the movement and send water squirting from the fountain's nozzle, a system without equal until the later part of the nineteenth century. Brief History Early Outdoor Public Fountains 622116451597923938.jpg

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The splendor and spectacle of fountains make them appropriate for historical memorials. If you saw the first fountains, you would not identify them as fountains. Simple stone basins created from nearby material were the very first fountains, used for spiritual functions and drinking water. Pure stone basins as fountains have been recovered from 2,000 BC. The first civilizations that utilized fountains depended on gravity to push water through spigots. Positioned near aqueducts or springs, the practical public water fountains supplied the local citizens with fresh drinking water. Creatures, Gods, and religious figures dominated the very early decorative Roman fountains, beginning to appear in about 6 BC. Water for the community fountains of Rome was delivered to the city via a complicated system of water aqueducts.