Bernini's Earliest Showpieces
Bernini's Earliest Showpieces Bernini's earliest water fountain, named Barcaccia, is a masterful work of art found at the foot of the Trinita dei Monti in Piaza di Spagna.
This area continues to be filled with Roman locals and visitors who like to exchanging gossip or going over the day's news. Bernini would undoubtedly have been happy to know that people still flock to what has become one the city's most fashionable areas, that around his amazing water fountain. In about 1630, the great master built the very first water fountain of his career at the behest of Pope Ubano VIII. The fountain’s central theme is based on a massive boat slowly sinking into the Mediterranean. The great flooding of the Tevere that covered the whole region with water in the 16th was commemorated by this momentous fountain as recorded by reports dating back to this time. In 1665 Bernini journeyed to France, in what was to be his sole prolonged absence from Italy.
Original Water Supply Techniques in Rome
Original Water Supply Techniques in Rome Rome’s first raised aqueduct, Aqua Anio Vetus, was built in 273 BC; prior to that, inhabitants living at higher elevations had to rely on local springs for their water. When aqueducts or springs weren’t easily accessible, people dwelling at raised elevations turned to water drawn from underground or rainwater, which was made possible by wells and cisterns. Starting in the sixteenth century, a new method was introduced, using Acqua Vergine’s subterranean segments to generate water to Pincian Hill. During its original building and construction, pozzi (or manholes) were installed at set intervals along the aqueduct’s channel. Though they were originally planned to make it possible to support the aqueduct, Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi started out using the manholes to gather water from the channel, commencing when he bought the property in 1543. He didn’t get an adequate amount water from the cistern that he had established on his property to obtain rainwater. To give himself with a much more efficient way to obtain water, he had one of the manholes opened, giving him access to the aqueduct below his property.
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