Bernini’s Very First Italian Water Fountains

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The Barcaccia, a beautiful water fountain built at the base of the Trinita dei Monti in Piaza di Spagna, was Bernini's earliest fountain. To this day, this spot is flooded with Roman locals and tourists alike who enjoy debate and each other's company. Today, the city streets around Bernini's water fountain are a trendy area where people go to meet, something which the artist would have been pleased to learn. In about 1630, the great master built the very first water fountain of his career at the behest of Pope Ubano VIII. A large vessel slowly sinking into the Mediterranean is the fountain's main theme. The great flooding of the Tevere that blanketed the whole region with water in the 16th was memorialized by this momentous fountain as recorded by documents dating back to this time. In 1665 Bernini journeyed to France, in what was to be his sole prolonged absence from Italy.

Garden Water Fountain Engineers Through History

Garden Water Fountain Engineers Through History Multi-talented people, fountain designers from the 16th to the late 18th century typically served as architects, sculptors, artists, engineers and cultivated scholars all in one. Exemplifying the Renaissance skilled artist as a creative legend, Leonardo da Vinci worked as an inventor and scientific expert. He methodically recorded his observations in his now much celebrated notebooks about his studies into the forces of nature and the qualities and mobility of water. Brilliant water displays packed of symbolic meaning and all-natural grace converted private villa settings when early Italian water feature creators fused imagination with hydraulic and landscaping expertise. Known for his virtuosity in archeology, design and garden design, Pirro Ligorio, the humanist, offered the vision behind the wonders in Tivoli. Well versed in humanistic themes and classical scientific texts, other water fountain creators were masterminding the fascinating water marbles, water attributes and water jokes for the countless mansions near Florence.

The Influence of the Norman Invasion on Anglo-Saxon Landscaping

The Influence of the Norman Invasion on Anglo-Saxon Landscaping The arrival of the Normans in the second half of the 11th century irreparably improved The Anglo-Saxon lifestyle. The ability of the Normans surpassed the Anglo-Saxons' in architecture and agriculture at the time of the conquest. But the Normans had to pacify the whole territory before they could concentrate on home life, domestic architecture, and decoration. Castles were more fundamental constructions and often built on blustery hills, where their tenants spent both time and space to exercising offense and defense, while monasteries were major stone buildings, mostly located in the widest, most fertile hollows. The calm practice of gardening was unlikely in these bleak bastions. The purest specimen of the early Anglo-Norman style of architecture existent today is Berkeley Castle. Influence Norman Invasion Anglo-Saxon Landscaping 38999902041847599.jpg

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The keep is said to date from the time of William the Conqueror. A massive terrace serves as a discouraging factor to invaders who would try to mine the walls of the building. One of these terraces, a charming bowling green, is covered grass and flanked by an ancient yew hedge trimmed into the figure of crude battlements.