Ancient Outdoor Water Feature Designers

Ancient Outdoor Water Feature Designers Water fountain designers were multi-talented people from the 16th to the later part of the 18th century, often working as architects, sculptors, artisans, engineers and cultivated scholars all in one. Leonardo da Vinci, a Renaissance artist, was celebrated as a imaginative master, inventor and scientific master. He methodically documented his findings in his now celebrated notebooks about his research into the forces of nature and the qualities and motion of water.Ancient Outdoor Water Feature Designers 6774833306.jpg Innovative water displays loaded with symbolic significance and all-natural charm changed private villa settings when early Italian fountain creators coupled imagination with hydraulic and gardening skill. The humanist Pirro Ligorio, celebrated for his virtuosity in archeology, architecture and garden design, provided the vision behind the wonders in Tivoli. Masterminding the extraordinary water marbles, water features and water jokes for the numerous estates near Florence, other water feature creators were well versed in humanistic issues as well as ancient technical texts.

Ancient Greece: The Inception of Outdoor Statue Design

Ancient Greece: The Inception of Outdoor Statue Design Though the majority of sculptors were remunerated by the temples to embellish the detailed columns and archways with renderings of the gods, as the time period came to a close, it became more prevalent for sculptors to represent average people as well because many of Greeks had begun to think of their religion as superstitious rather than sacred. Affluent families would often times commission a rendering of their forefathers for their big familial tombs; portraiture also became prevalent and would be appropriated by the Romans upon their acquisition of Greek society. It is wrong to say that the arts had one function during the course of The Classical Greek period, a duration of innovative advancement during which the use of sculpture and various other art forms evolved. Whether to satisfy a visual yearning or to celebrate the figures of religion, Greek sculpture was an imaginative method in the ancient world, which may be what draws our focus today.
How Technical Concepts of Fountains Spread Throughout Europe, the principal means of spreading useful hydraulic information and fountain design suggestions were the published papers and illustrated publications of the day, which added to the advancement of scientific development.... read more


Builders of the First Outdoor Fountains Often working as architects, sculptors, artists, engineers and cultivated scholars all in one, from the 16th to the later part of the 18th century, fountain designers were multi-faceted individuals,... read more


Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Water Features In Rome’s city center, there are many easily recognized fountains.Gian Lorenzo Bernini, one of the most brilliant sculptors and artists of the 17th century designed, created and built nearly all of them.... read more


The Public Garden Fountains Villages and communities depended on functional water fountains to channel water for cooking, washing, and cleaning from nearby sources like ponds, channels, or creeks.... read more