"Old School" Water Feature Creative Designers
"Old School" Water Feature Creative Designers Multi-talented people, fountain artists from the 16th to the late 18th century frequently worked as architects, sculptors, artists, engineers and highly educated scholars all in one. During the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci exemplified the creator as an imaginative wizard, inventor and scientific expert. The forces of nature led him to analyze the properties and movement of water, and due to his curiosity, he methodically captured his experiences in his now renowned notebooks.
Transforming private villa configurations into imaginative water showcases complete with symbolic interpretation and natural beauty, early Italian water fountain creators combined imagination with hydraulic and gardening knowledge. The humanist Pirro Ligorio, renowned for his virtuosity in archeology, architecture and garden design, provided the vision behind the wonders in Tivoli. For the assorted properties close to Florence, other water fountain builders were well versed in humanistic subjects and classical scientific texts, masterminding the excellent water marbles, water attributes and water jokes.
The Genesis Of Wall Fountains
The Genesis Of Wall Fountains The dramatic or decorative effect of a fountain is just one of the purposes it fulfills, as well as providing drinking water and adding a decorative touch to your property.Pure practicality was the original purpose of fountains.
Cities, towns and villages made use of nearby aqueducts or springs to provide them with drinking water as well as water where they could bathe or wash. Up until the 19th century, fountains had to be higher and closer to a water supply, such as aqueducts and reservoirs, in order to take advantage of gravity which fed the fountains. Fountains were an excellent source of water, and also served to adorn living areas and celebrate the artist. The main components used by the Romans to build their fountains were bronze or stone masks, mostly illustrating animals or heroes. During the Middle Ages, Muslim and Moorish garden designers included fountains in their designs to re-create the gardens of paradise. To demonstrate his prominence over nature, French King Louis XIV included fountains in the Garden of Versailles. Seventeen and 18 century Popes sought to exalt their positions by adding decorative baroque-style fountains at the point where restored Roman aqueducts arrived into the city.
Urban fountains made at the end of the 19th century served only as decorative and celebratory ornaments since indoor plumbing provided the essential drinking water. Fountains using mechanical pumps instead of gravity helped fountains to bring recycled water into living spaces as well as create unique water effects.
Beautifying city parks, honoring people or events and entertaining, are some of the uses of modern-day fountains.