The Origins Of Garden Fountains

The Origins Of Garden Fountains The incredible architecture of a fountain allows it to provide clean water or shoot water high into air for dramatic effect and it can also serve as an excellent design feature to complement your home.

Originally, fountains only served a practical purpose. Cities, towns and villages made use of nearby aqueducts or springs to provide them with potable water as well as water where they could bathe or wash.Origins Garden Fountains 097877831923172767.jpg Used until the nineteenth century, in order for fountains to flow or shoot up into the air, their origin of water such as reservoirs or aqueducts, had to be higher than the water fountain in order to benefit from the power of gravity. Artists thought of fountains as wonderful additions to a living space, however, the fountains also served to supply clean water and celebrate the artist responsible for creating it. The main materials used by the Romans to create their fountains were bronze or stone masks, mostly depicting animals or heroes. During the Middle Ages, Muslim and Moorish garden planners included fountains to create smaller variations of the gardens of paradise. To show his dominance over nature, French King Louis XIV included fountains in the Garden of Versailles. The Romans of the 17th and 18th centuries created baroque decorative fountains to exalt the Popes who commissioned them as well as to mark the spot where the restored Roman aqueducts entered the city.

Since indoor plumbing became the norm of the day for fresh, drinking water, by the end of the 19th century urban fountains were no longer needed for this purpose and they became purely decorative. The introduction of unique water effects and the recycling of water were two things made possible by replacing gravity with mechanical pumps.

Beautifying city parks, honoring people or events and entertaining, are some of the functions of modern-day fountains.

Archaic Greek Artwork: Garden Statuary

Archaic Greek Artwork: Garden Statuary Archaic Greeks were known for developing the first freestanding statuary; up till then, most carvings were made out of walls and pillars as reliefs.Archaic Greek Artwork: Garden Statuary 7073169236819422165.jpg Most of the freestanding statues were of young, winsome male or female (kore) Greeks and are known as kouros figures. The kouroi, viewed as by the Greeks to symbolize beauty, had one foot stretched out of a rigid forward-facing pose and the male statues were regularly nude, with a strong, strong shape. In 650 BC, life-sized versions of the kouroi began to be seen. The Archaic period was an incredible time of transformation for the Greeks as they expanded into new modes of government, created novel expressions of art, and gained knowledge of the people and cultures outside of Greece. But in spite of the disputes, the Greek civilization continued to progress, unabated.
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