The Magificent Early Wonders by Bernini

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Bernini's earliest water fountain, named Barcaccia, is a masterful work of art seen at the foot of the Trinita dei Monti in Piaza di Spagna. To this day, this spot is filled with Roman locals and tourists alike who enjoy debate and each other's company. One of the city’s most fashionable meeting places are the streets surrounding Bernini's fountain, which would undoubtedly have brought a smile to the great Bernini. Dating back to around 1630, Pope Urbano VIII commissioned what was to be the earliest water fountain of the artist's career. People can now see the fountain as a depiction of a great ship slowly sinking into the Mediterranean. Period reports dating back to the 16th century show that the fountain was built as a memorial to those who lost their lives in the great flooding of the Tevere. In 1665 Bernini traveled to France, in what was to be his sole prolonged absence from Italy.

The Distribution of Water Fountain Engineering Knowledge in Europe

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Throughout the European countries, the principal means of dissiminating useful hydraulic understanding and fountain design ideas were the published papers and illustrated books of the time, which added to the development of scientific development. An unnamed French fountain designer came to be an globally celebrated hydraulic innovator in the later part of the 1500's. By creating gardens and grottoes with built-in and amazing water features, he began his profession in Italy by receiving imperial commissions in Brussels, London and Germany. “The Principles of Moving Forces”, a book which became the fundamental text on hydraulic mechanics and engineering, was composed by him towards the end of his life in France. Detailing the latest hydraulic systems, the book also updated key hydraulic developments of classical antiquity. The water screw, a technical method to move water, and developed by Archimedes, was showcased in the book. Sunlight heating up water in a couple of vessels unseen in a room adjacent to an decorative water fountain was displayed in one illustration. What occurs is the hot liquid expanded, goes up and closes up the pipes heading to the water fountain, and thus leading to stimulation. The publication additionally covers garden ponds, water wheels, water feature creations.

The Source of Today's Fountains

The Source of Today's Fountains Hundreds of ancient Greek texts were translated into Latin under the authority of the scholarly Pope Nicholas V, who led the Roman Catholic Church from 1397 to 1455. It was imperative for him to embellish the city of Rome to make it worthy of being known as the capital of the Christian world. At the behest of the Pope, the Aqua Vergine, a ruined aqueduct which had transported clean drinking water into Rome from eight miles away, was renovated starting in 1453. Building a mostra, a grandiose celebratory fountain built by ancient Romans to memorialize the arrival point of an aqueduct, was a custom revived by Nicholas V. At the behest of the Pope, architect Leon Battista Alberti undertook the construction of a wall fountain in the spot where we now find the Trevi Fountain. Changes and extensions, included in the repaired aqueduct, eventually provided the Trevi Fountain and the well-known baroque fountains in the Piazza del Popolo and Piazza Navona with the necessary water supply.