"Old School" Water Feature Designers
"Old School" Water Feature Designers Often serving as architects, sculptors, designers, engineers and discerning scholars, all in one, fountain designers were multi-talented individuals from the 16th to the later part of the 18th century. Leonardo da Vinci, a Renaissance artist, was renowned as a imaginative intellect, inventor and scientific expert. The forces of nature guided him to investigate the qualities and movement of water, and due to his fascination, he methodically captured his observations in his now famed notebooks. Ingenious water exhibits full of symbolic significance and all-natural wonder converted private villa settings when early Italian water feature creators fused creativity with hydraulic and gardening skill. The humanist Pirro Ligorio, celebrated for his virtuosity in archeology, architecture and garden design, offered the vision behind the wonders in Tivoli. For the assorted estates near Florence, other fountain developers were well versed in humanistic subjects and ancient scientific texts, masterminding the incredible water marbles, water attributes and water humor.
The Wide Range of Wall Fountains
The Wide Range of Wall Fountains Putting a wall fountain in your backyard or patio is perfect when you want to unwind.
You can also make the most of a small area by having one custom-built. A spout, a water basin, internal piping, and a pump are essential for freestanding as well as mounted varieties. Traditional, modern, antique, and Asian are just a few of the styles from which you can choose. With its basin laid on the ground, freestanding wall fountains, or floor fountains, are generally quite big in size.
You can decide to place your wall-mounted feature on an preexisting wall or build it into a new wall. This style of fountain adds to a cohesive look making it appear as if it was part of the landscape instead of an added feature.
The Defining Characteristics of Ancient Greek Statues
The Defining Characteristics of Ancient Greek Statues The primitive Greeks manufactured the first freestanding statuary, an impressive achievement as most sculptures up until then had been reliefs cut into walls and pillars. For the most part the statues, or kouros figures, were of young and nice-looking male or female (kore) Greeks. Considered by Greeks to represent skin care, the kouroi were structured into firm, forward facing poses with one foot outstretched, and the male statues were usually nude, muscular, and athletic.
In 650 BC, life-size models of the kouroi began to be seen. During the Archaic time, a great time of changes, the Greeks were developing new types of government, expressions of art, and a better comprehension of people and cultures outside Greece. Nevertheless, the Greek civilization was not slowed down by these fights.