"Old School" Fountain Manufacturers

"Old School" Fountain Manufacturers Fountain designers were multi-talented individuals from the 16th to the late 18th century, often working as architects, sculptors, artists, engineers and cultivated scholars all in one.

During the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci illustrated the artist as a imaginative genius, inventor and scientific specialist. With his immense curiosity concerning the forces of nature, he examined the characteristics and movement of water and systematically documented his findings in his now much celebrated notebooks. Innovative water exhibits full of symbolic meaning and all-natural wonder converted private villa settings when early Italian water fountain designers coupled imagination with hydraulic and landscaping skill. The humanist Pirro Ligorio, distinguished for his virtuosity in archeology, architecture and garden design, offered the vision behind the splendors in Tivoli. Other fountain designers, masterminding the incredible water marbles, water attributes and water jokes for the many mansions in the vicinity of Florence, were well-versed in humanistic subject areas and traditional scientific readings.

Anglo Saxon Landscapes During the Norman Conquest

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Anglo Saxon Landscapes During the Norman Conquest The Anglo-Saxon way of life was considerably changed by the arrival of the Normans in the later eleventh century. Architecture and horticulture were attributes that the Normans excelled in, trumping that of the Anglo-Saxons at the time of the occupation. But before focusing on home-life or having the occasion to think about domestic architecture or decoration, the Normans had to subjugate an entire population. Castles were more standard designs and often constructed on blustery hills, where their tenants devoted both time and space to practicing offense and defense, while monasteries were large stone buildings, commonly positioned in the widest, most fruitful hollows. Gardening, a quiet occupation, was unfeasible in these fruitless fortifications. The early Anglo-Norman style of architecture is symbolized in Berkeley Castle, which is perhaps the most unscathed illustration we have. The keep is said to date from the time of William the Conqueror. An enormous terrace encompasses the building, serving as an impediment to assailants intending to excavate under the castle walls. One of these terraces, a charming bowling green, is covered grass and flanked by an old yew hedge cut into the form of crude battlements.