The Earliest Public Water Fountains
The Earliest Public Water Fountains Villages and villages relied on practical water fountains to channel water for preparing food, bathing, and cleaning from local sources like lakes, channels, or springs. To generate water flow through a fountain until the end of the 1800’s, and generate a jet of water, required gravity and a water source such as a spring or reservoir, situated higher than the fountain.
The beauty and spectacle of fountains make them appropriate for traditional monuments. When you see a fountain today, that is not what the 1st water fountains looked like. A natural stone basin, carved from rock, was the 1st fountain, utilized for holding water for drinking and ceremonial purposes. Stone basins are theorized to have been first made use of around 2,000 BC. The force of gravity was the power source that operated the earliest water fountains. The placement of the fountains was influenced by the water source, which is why you’ll commonly find them along aqueducts, waterways, or streams. Fountains with ornamental Gods, mythological monsters, and creatures began to appear in Rome in about 6 B.C., crafted from stone and bronze. The remarkable aqueducts of Rome delivered water to the eye-catching public fountains, most of which you can travel to today.
Modern Garden Decor: Fountains and their Beginnings
Modern Garden Decor: Fountains and their Beginnings A water fountain is an architectural piece that pours water into a basin or jets it high into the air in order to supply drinking water, as well as for decorative purposes.
The main purpose of a fountain was originally strictly practical. People in cities, towns and villages received their drinking water, as well as water to bathe and wash, via aqueducts or springs nearby. Until the late 19th, century most water fountains functioned using gravity to allow water to flow or jet into the air, therefore, they needed a supply of water such as a reservoir or aqueduct located higher than the fountain. Fountains were an optimal source of water, and also served to decorate living areas and memorialize the artist. Roman fountains usually depicted images of animals or heroes made of bronze or stone masks. To depict the gardens of paradise, Muslim and Moorish garden planners of the Middle Ages added fountains to their designs. The fountains seen in the Gardens of Versailles were meant to show the power over nature held by King Louis XIV of France. Seventeen and 18 century Popes sought to extol their positions by adding decorative baroque-style fountains at the point where restored Roman aqueducts arrived into the city.
Indoor plumbing became the key source of water by the end of the 19th century thereby limiting urban fountains to mere decorative elements. Fountains using mechanical pumps instead of gravity helped fountains to bring recycled water into living spaces as well as create special water effects.
Nowadays, fountains adorn public areas and are used to recognize individuals or events and fill recreational and entertainment needs.
Archaic Greek Art: Garden Statuary
Archaic Greek Art: Garden Statuary Up until the Archaic Greeks provided the first freestanding statuary, a remarkable success, carvings had primarily been accomplished in walls and pillars as reliefs. Most of the freestanding statues were of young, winsome male or female (kore) Greeks and are known as kouros figures. Representing beauty to the Greeks, the kouroi were designed to appear stiff and typically had foot in front; the males were vigorous, robust, and naked. The kouroi became life-sized commencing in 650 BC.
During the Archaic time, a great time of changes, the Greeks were evolving new types of government, expressions of art, and a better understanding of people and cultures outside Greece. However, the Greek civilization was not slowed down by these struggles.