The Origins of Contemporary Wall Fountains

The Origins of Contemporary Wall Fountains The translation of hundreds of classic Greek documents into Latin was commissioned by the scholarly Pope Nicholas V who led the Church in Rome from 1397 till 1455. Beautifying Rome and making it the worthy capital of the Christian world was at the core of his ambitions. Restoration of the Acqua Vergine, a ruined Roman aqueduct which had transported clean drinking water into the city from eight miles away, began in 1453 at the bidding of the Pope. 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. The Trevi Fountain now occupies the space previously filled with a wall fountain crafted by Leon Battista Albert, an architect commissioned by the Pope. The Trevi Fountain as well as the renowned baroque fountains located in the Piazza del Popolo and the Piazza Navona were eventually supplied with water from the altered aqueduct he had reconstructed.

The Dispersion of Water Fountain Design Knowledge

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The published reports and illustrated books of the day contributed to the development of scientific technology, and were the primary methods of spreading practical hydraulic information and water feature suggestions throughout Europe. An unnamed French water feature engineer came to be an internationally celebrated hydraulic innovator in the later part of the 1500's. With imperial mandates in Brussels, London and Germany, he began his work in Italy, acquiring expertise in garden design and grottoes with integrated and clever water features. In France, towards the end of his life, he penned “The Principle of Moving Forces”, a publication that turned into the essential text on hydraulic mechanics and engineering. Modernizing principal hydraulic breakthroughs of classical antiquity, the book also highlights modern hydraulic technologies. Dominant among these works were those of Archimedes, the creator of the water screw, a mechanized way of moving water. An beautiful water fountain with the sun heating the liquid in two containers stashed in an nearby accommodation was shown in one illustration. What occurs is the heated water expanded, rises and closes up the pipes heading to the water feature, consequently leading to activation. The book also includes garden ponds, water wheels, water feature creations.