"Old School" Water Feature Designers

Water feature designers were multi-talented individuals from the 16th to the late 18th century, often working as architects, sculptors, artists, engineers and cultivated scholars all in one person. Leonardo da Vinci, a Renaissance artist, was renowned as an creative genius, inventor and scientific virtuoso. He methodically registered his examinations in his now much celebrated notebooks about his research into the forces of nature and the attributes and mobility of water. Early Italian fountain builders transformed private villa settings into inspiring water displays full of emblematic meaning and natural charm by combining imagination with hydraulic and gardening expertise. The magnificence in Tivoli were created by the humanist Pirro Ligorio, who was celebrated for his skill in archeology, engineering and garden design. For the assorted properties near Florence, other water feature designers were well versed in humanist subject areas as well as classical technical texts, masterminding the incredible water marbles, water features and water humor.

Bernini: The Master of Italy's Greatest Water Fountains

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Bernini's earliest fountain, named Barcaccia, is a masterful work of art found at the foot of the Trinita dei Monti in Piaza di Spagna. Roman residents and site seers who appreciate verbal exchanges as well as being the company of others still go to this spot. Bernini would undoubtedly have been happy to know that people still flock to what has become one the city's most fashionable areas, that surrounding his amazing fountain. In about 1630, the great master designed the first water fountain of his career at the behest of Pope Ubano VIII. An enormous boat slowly sinking into the Mediterranean is the fountain's main theme. The great 16th century flood of the Tevere, which left the entire region inundated with water, was memorialized by the water fountain according to documents from the period. Absenting himself from Italy only once in his life for a lengthy time period, in 1665 Bernini traveled to France.

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