The First Public Water Features
The First Public Water Features Water fountains were originally practical in purpose, used to bring water from canals or creeks to towns and hamlets, providing the residents with fresh water to drink, bathe, and prepare food with. In the days before electrical power, the spray of fountains was driven by gravity only, commonly using an aqueduct or water resource located far away in the nearby mountains. Inspirational and impressive, prominent water fountains have been designed as monuments in nearly all civilizations. If you saw the very first fountains, you would not identify them as fountains.
Designed for drinking water and ceremonial functions, the initial fountains were simple carved stone basins. The earliest stone basins are presumed to be from around 2000 BC. The jet of water emerging from small jets was pushed by gravity, the lone power source creators had in those days. Positioned near aqueducts or springs, the functional public water fountains furnished the local populace with fresh drinking water. Fountains with elaborate decoration began to show up in Rome in about 6 B.C., commonly gods and animals, made with stone or copper-base alloy. Water for the community fountains of Rome was delivered to the city via a elaborate system of water aqueducts.
The History of Outdoor Garden Fountains
The History of Outdoor Garden Fountains The translation of hundreds of classical Greek texts into Latin was commissioned by the scholarly Pope Nicholas V who led the Church in Rome from 1397 until 1455. He undertook the embellishment of Rome to make it into the worthy seat of the Christian world. In 1453 the Pope instigated the repairing of the Aqua Vergine, an historic Roman aqueduct which had carried fresh drinking water into the city from eight miles away. A mostra, a monumental commemorative fountain constructed by ancient Romans to mark the point of entry of an aqueduct, was a tradition which was revived by Nicholas V. At the behest of the Pope, architect Leon Battista Alberti undertook the construction of a wall fountain in the place where we now find the Trevi Fountain. Adjustments and extensions, included in the restored 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.
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