Contemporary Garden Decor: Outdoor Fountains and their Roots
Contemporary Garden Decor: Outdoor Fountains and their Roots The incredible construction of a fountain allows it to provide clean water or shoot water high into air for dramatic effect and it can also serve as an excellent design feature to complete your home.
From the onset, outdoor fountains were soley meant to serve as functional elements. Water fountains were connected to a spring or aqueduct to provide potable water as well as bathing water for cities, townships and villages. Used until the nineteenth century, in order for fountains to flow or shoot up into the air, their source of water such as reservoirs or aqueducts, had to be higher than the water fountain in order to benefit from the power of gravity. Artists thought of fountains as amazing additions to a living space, however, the fountains also served to supply clean water and celebrate the designer responsible for building it. The main materials used by the Romans to create their fountains were bronze or stone masks, mostly depicting animals or heroes. To replicate the gardens of paradise, Muslim and Moorish garden planners of the Middle Ages introduced fountains to their designs. King Louis XIV of France wanted to illustrate his dominion over nature by including fountains in the Gardens of Versailles. Seventeen and 18 century Popes sought to laud their positions by including beautiful baroque-style fountains at the point where restored Roman aqueducts arrived into the city.
The end of the nineteenth century saw the rise in usage of indoor plumbing to provide drinking water, so urban fountains were relegated to purely decorative elements. Gravity was replaced by mechanical pumps in order to enable fountains to bring in clean water and allow for beautiful water displays.
Decorating city parks, honoring people or events and entertaining, are some of the functions of modern-day fountains.
The Distribution of Garden Water Fountains Manufacturing Knowledge in Europe
The Distribution of Garden Water Fountains Manufacturing Knowledge in Europe
Throughout Europe, the chief means of spreading practical hydraulic facts and fountain design suggestions were the circulated papers and illustrated books of the day, which added to the development of scientific development. An un-named French water fountain designer was an internationally famed hydraulic pioneer in the later part of the 1500's. By creating landscapes and grottoes with built-in and ingenious water attributes, he started off his career in Italy by earning Royal mandates in Brussels, London and Germany. The publication, “The Principles of Moving Forces,” authored near the end of his life in France, turned into the fundamental writing on hydraulic mechanics and engineering. Modernizing vital hydraulic findings of classical antiquity, the publication also highlights contemporary hydraulic technologies. Dominant among these works were those of Archimedes, the creator of the water screw, a mechanical way of moving water. Sunlight heating up water in a pair of containers hidden in a room adjacent to an ornamental fountain was displayed in one illustration. What occurs is the hot liquid expanded, goes up and locks up the pipes leading to the fountain, consequently leading to stimulation. Designs for pumps, water wheels, water attributes and outdoor ponds are also mentioned in the book.