Bernini's Earliest Masterpieces

Bernini's Earliest Masterpieces One can see Bernini's earliest masterpiece, the Barcaccia water fountain, at the base of the Trinita dei Monti in Piaza di Spagna. To this day, this area is filled with Roman locals and tourists alike who enjoy debate and each other's company.

The streets neighboring his fountain have come to be one of the city’s most trendy meeting places, something which would certainly have pleased Bernini himself. The master's first water fountain of his professional life was built at around 1630 at the behest of Pope Urbano VIII. Depicted in the fountain's design is a great ship slowly sinking into the Mediterranean Sea. The great flooding of the Tevere that blanketed the whole region with water in the 16th was commemorated by this momentous fountain as recorded by reports dating back to this period. Absenting himself from Italy only once in his life for a lengthy time period, in 1665 Bernini voyaged to France.

Ancient Outside Water Fountain Artists

Ancient Outside Water Fountain Artists Often serving as architects, sculptors, artists, engineers and cultivated scholars, all in one, fountain creators were multi-faceted individuals from the 16th to the later part of the 18th century. During the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci exemplified the creator as a imaginative intellect, creator and scientific specialist. He methodically annotated his findings in his now famed notebooks about his investigations into the forces of nature and the qualities and mobility of water. Coupling imagination with hydraulic and gardening mastery, early Italian water feature designers transformed private villa settings into innovative water displays full with symbolic implications and natural charm. The humanist Pirro Ligorio provided the vision behind the wonders in Tivoli and was celebrated for his skill in archeology, architecture and garden design. Ancient Outside Water Fountain Artists 113844033159811.jpg

For the various properties in the vicinity of Florence, other water feature developers were well versed in humanistic subjects and ancient technical texts, masterminding the phenomenal water marbles, water features and water humor.