From Where Did Water Features Emerge?

From Where Did Water Features Emerge? Himself a learned man, Pope Nicholas V led the Roman Catholic Church from 1397 till 1455 and was responsible for the translation of hundreds of age-old documents from their original Greek into Latin. He undertook the embellishment of Rome to turn it into the worthy capital of the Christian world. In 1453 the Pope commissioned the rebuilding of the Aqua Vergine, an historic Roman aqueduct which had carried clean drinking water into the city from eight miles away. Building a mostra, an imposing celebratory fountain built by ancient Romans to memorialize the arrival point of an aqueduct, was a tradition revived by Nicholas V. At the behest of the Pope, architect Leon Battista Alberti undertook the construction of a wall fountain in the spot where we now find the Trevi Fountain. The aqueduct he had refurbished included modifications and extensions which eventually allowed it to supply water to the Trevi Fountain as well as the famed baroque fountains in the Piazza del Popolo and the Piazza Navona.

"Old School" Garden Fountain Designers

"Old School" Garden Fountain Designers Multi-talented people, fountain artists from the 16th to the late 18th century frequently functioned as architects, sculptors, artists, engineers and cultivated scholars all in one. Throughout the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci illustrated the artist as a creative intellect, inventor and scientific expert. With his tremendous fascination about the forces of nature, he explored the attributes and movement of water and also systematically recorded his findings in his now recognized notebooks. Modifying private villa configurations into ingenious water showcases packed of symbolic interpretation and natural beauty, early Italian water fountain engineers combined imagination with hydraulic and gardening expertise. The magnificence in Tivoli were provided by the humanist Pirro Ligorio, who was famed for his skill in archeology, engineering and garden design. For the assorted lands close to Florence, other water feature developers were well versed in humanist themes and classical scientific texts, masterminding the excellent water marbles, water highlights and water antics.