Your Herb Container Garden: The Basics
Your Herb Container Garden: The Basics
Builders of the First Outside Garden Fountains
Builders of the First Outside Garden Fountains Often serving as architects, sculptors, artists, engineers and discerning scholars, all in one, fountain creators were multi-faceted people from the 16th to the later part of the 18th century. Leonardo da Vinci, a Renaissance artist, was celebrated as a imaginative master, inventor and scientific master. With his tremendous curiosity regarding the forces of nature, he explored the properties and movement of water and also carefully documented his examinations in his now much celebrated notebooks. Remodeling private villa settings into ingenious water showcases complete with symbolic significance and natural beauty, early Italian water feature designers paired curiosity with hydraulic and gardening knowledge. The humanist Pirro Ligorio, renowned for his virtuosity in archeology, architecture and garden design, delivered the vision behind the wonders in Tivoli. For the assorted mansions near Florence, other water feature engineers were well versed in humanist topics and classical scientific texts, masterminding the phenomenal water marbles, water features and water antics.Contemporary Sculpture in Historic Greece
Contemporary Sculpture in Historic Greece Traditionally, the vast majority of sculptors were paid by the temples to adorn the elaborate columns and archways with renderings of the gods, but as the era came to a close it grew to be more common for sculptors to portray regular people as well simply because many Greeks had begun to think of their institution as superstitious rather than sacred.