Where did Landscape Fountains Come From?

Where did Landscape Fountains Come From? The amazing or ornamental 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. Landscape Fountains Come From? 205684723332.jpg

Landscape Fountains Come From? 205684723332.jpg

Originally, fountains only served a practical purpose. Water fountains were linked to a spring or aqueduct to provide potable water as well as bathing water for cities, townships and villages. Up until the nineteenth, fountains had to be more elevated and closer to a water source, such as aqueducts and reservoirs, in order to benefit from gravity which fed the fountains. Fountains were not only utilized as a water source for drinking water, but also to decorate homes and celebrate the artist who created it. Animals or heroes made of bronze or stone masks were often times utilized by Romans to beautify their fountains. Throughout the Middle Ages, Muslim and Moorish garden planners included fountains to create mini depictions of the gardens of paradise. To show his dominance over nature, French King Louis XIV included fountains in the Garden of Versailles. The Popes of the 17th and 18th centuries were extolled with baroque style fountains constructed to mark the arrival points of Roman aqueducts.

Indoor plumbing became the key source of water by the end of the 19th century thereby restricting urban fountains to mere decorative elements. Fountains using mechanical pumps instead of gravity helped fountains to deliver recycled water into living spaces as well as create special water effects.

Modern fountains are used to adorn community spaces, honor individuals or events, and enrich recreational and entertainment events.

Water Delivery Strategies in Ancient Rome

Water Delivery Strategies in Ancient Rome Rome’s 1st elevated aqueduct, Aqua Anio Vetus, was built in 273 BC; before that, citizens residing at higher elevations had to depend on natural springs for their water. If inhabitants living at higher elevations did not have accessibility to springs or the aqueduct, they’d have to depend on the remaining existing techniques of the time, cisterns that gathered rainwater from the sky and subterranean wells that received the water from below ground. Starting in the sixteenth century, a brand new method was introduced, using Acqua Vergine’s subterranean sections to supply water to Pincian Hill. The aqueduct’s channel was made attainable by pozzi, or manholes, that were installed along its length when it was 1st created. The manholes made it less demanding to maintain the channel, but it was also possible to use buckets to remove water from the aqueduct, as we observed with Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi when he possessed the property from 1543 to 1552, the year he died. It seems that, the rainwater cistern on his property wasn’t enough to fulfill his needs. Via an orifice to the aqueduct that ran underneath his property, he was able to fulfill his water needs.