A Chronicle of Outdoor Garden Fountains

A Chronicle of Outdoor Garden Fountains Pope Nicholas V, himself a well educated man, reigned the Roman Catholic Church from 1397 to 1455 during which time he commissioned many translations of old classic Greek texts into Latin. He undertook the beautification of Rome to turn it into the model capital of the Christian world. In 1453 the Pope commissioned the rebuilding of the Aqua Vergine, an ancient Roman aqueduct which had carried fresh drinking water into the city from eight miles away. Building a mostra, an imposing celebratory fountain built by ancient Romans to memorialize the entry point of an aqueduct, was a tradition revived 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. Adjustments and extensions, included in the restored 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.

Did You Know How Mechanical Designs of Fountains Became Known?

Did You Know How Mechanical Designs of Fountains Became Known? Spreading pragmatic hydraulic information and water fountain design ideas all through Europe was accomplished with the printed documents and illustrated books of the time. In the late 1500's, a French water fountain architect (whose name has been lost) was the globally renowned hydraulics innovator. His experience in creating gardens and grottoes with integrated and imaginative water features began in Italy and with commissions in Brussels, London and Germany. In France, near the end of his lifetime, he published “The Principle of Moving Forces”, a publication that turned into the essential text on hydraulic technology and engineering. Modernizing principal hydraulic discoveries of classical antiquity, the publication also details modern hydraulic technologies. Archimedes, the inventor of the water screw, had his work showcased and these included a mechanical means to move water. Natural light warmed the liquid in a pair of concealed vessels adjacent to the decorative fountain were displayed in an illustration. Actuating the water feature is heated liquid that expands and ascends to close up the water lines. The book additionally includes garden ponds, water wheels, water feature creations.