The Broad Array of Outdoor Wall Water Fountains
The Broad Array of Outdoor Wall Water Fountains You can find tranquility and quiet when you add a wall fountain in your garden or patio. Even a small space can contain a custom-made one.
Both the stand alone and fitted types need to have a spout, a water basin, internal tubing, and a pump. There are many different varieties available on the market including traditional, contemporary, classical, or Asian. With its basin placed on the ground, freestanding wall fountains, or floor fountains, are typically quite big in size.
A stand-alone fountain can either be incorporated onto a wall already in existence or built into a wall under construction. This style of fountain adds to a cohesive look making it appear as if it was part of the landscape instead of an added feature.
Bernini: The Master of Italy's Most Impressive Water Fountains
Bernini: The Master of Italy's Most Impressive Water Fountains One can see Bernini's very first masterpiece, the Barcaccia fountain, at the bottom of the Trinita dei Monti in Piaza di Spagna. To this day, this spot is filled with Roman locals and travelers alike who enjoy debate and each other's company. One of the city’s most fashionable meeting places are the streets surrounding Bernini's fountain, which would undoubtedly have brought a smile to the great Bernini.
In about 1630, the great master built the very first water fountain of his career at the behest of Pope Ubano VIII. People can now see the fountain as an illustration of a commanding ship slowly sinking into the Mediterranean Sea. According to 16th century documents, a great flood of the Tevere covered the entire area in water, an event which was memorialized by the tremendous fountain. Absenting himself from Italy only once in his life for a long-lasting period of time, in 1665 Bernini traveled to France.
When and Where Did Water Features Emerge?
When and Where Did Water Features Emerge? Pope Nicholas V, himself a learned man, governed the Roman Catholic Church from 1397 to 1455 during which time he commissioned many translations of ancient classical Greek documents into Latin. It was important for him to embellish the city of Rome to make it worthy of being known as the capital of the Christian world. At the behest of the Pope, the Aqua Vergine, a ruined aqueduct which had carried clean drinking water into Rome from eight miles away, was reconditioned starting in 1453.
Building a mostra, an imposing commemorative fountain built by ancient Romans to memorialize the arrival point of an aqueduct, was a tradition revived by Nicholas V. The present-day site of the Trevi Fountain was once occupied by a wall fountain commissioned by the Pope and built by the architect Leon Battista Alberti. The Trevi Fountain as well as the renowned baroque fountains found in the Piazza del Popolo and the Piazza Navona were eventually supplied with water from the modified aqueduct he had reconstructed.