The Results of the Norman Invasion on Anglo-Saxon Gardens

The Results of the Norman Invasion on Anglo-Saxon Gardens Anglo-Saxons encountered great changes to their daily lives in the latter half of the eleventh century due to the accession of the Normans. Results Norman Invasion Anglo-Saxon Gardens 98436910008.jpg

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Engineering and gardening were skills that the Normans excelled in, trumping that of the Anglo-Saxons at the time of the occupation. But home life, household architecture, and decoration were out of the question until the Normans taken over the general population. Most often built upon windy peaks, castles were straightforward constructs that enabled their occupants to spend time and space to offensive and defensive strategies, while monasteries were rambling stone buildings commonly added in only the most fecund, broad valleys. Gardening, a placid occupation, was unfeasible in these fruitless fortifications. The finest specimen of the early Anglo-Norman style of architecture existent today is Berkeley Castle. The keep is said to date from William the Conqueror's time period. An enormous terrace encompasses the building, serving as an impediment to attackers trying to excavate under the castle walls. One of these terraces, a charming bowling green, is covered grass and flanked by an old yew hedge trimmed into the shape of crude battlements.

Bernini’s First Italian Fountains

Bernini’s First Italian Fountains The Barcaccia, a beautiful water fountain built at the base of the Trinita dei Monti in Piaza di Spagna, was Bernini's earliest water fountain. To this day, you will see Roman residents and vacation goers filling this area to revel in chit chatter and being among other people. The streets neighboring his water fountain have come to be one of the city’s most trendy gathering places, something which would certainly have pleased Bernini himself. The master's first water fountain of his career was built at around 1630 at the behest of Pope Urbano VIII. People can now see the fountain as an illustration of a great ship slowly sinking into the Mediterranean. The great flooding of the Tevere that covered the whole region with water in the 16th was memorialized by this momentous fountain as recorded by reports dating back to this period. In 1665, France was graced by Bernini's one-and-only extended trip outside of Italy.

The Original Garden Fountain Designers

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The Original Garden Fountain Designers Water feature designers were multi-talented people from the 16th to the later part of the 18th century, often serving as architects, sculptors, artisans, engineers and highly educated scholars all in one person. Leonardo da Vinci, a Renaissance artist, was renowned as an inspired master, inventor and scientific expert. He systematically documented his findings in his now famed notebooks about his studies into the forces of nature and the attributes and mobility of water. Remodeling private villa settings into innovative water showcases full of symbolic significance and natural beauty, early Italian water fountain designers paired resourcefulness with hydraulic and gardening expertise. Known for his virtuosity in archeology, design and garden design, Pirro Ligorio, the humanist, delivered the vision behind the magnificence in Tivoli. Masterminding the extraordinary water marbles, water attributes and water pranks for the various estates near Florence, other water fountain creators were well versed in humanist topics and classical scientific texts.