Inventors of the First Water Fountains

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Often serving as architects, sculptors, designers, engineers and discerning scholars, all in one, fountain designers were multi-talented people from the 16th to the late 18th century. Exemplifying the Renaissance artist as a inspiring master, Leonardo da Vinci worked as an inventor and scientific expert. The forces of nature guided him to investigate the qualities and motion of water, and due to his curiosity, he systematically captured his ideas in his now renowned notebooks. Early Italian water feature builders altered private villa settings into inventive water showcases full with symbolic meaning and natural beauty by combining creativity with hydraulic and horticultural expertise. The humanist Pirro Ligorio brought the vision behind the splendors in Tivoli and was renowned for his virtuosity in archeology, architecture and garden design. Well versed in humanistic subject areas as well as classic technical texts, other water fountain creators were masterminding the extraordinary water marbles, water functions and water pranks for the countless estates near Florence.

When and Where Did Water Features Emerge?

When and Where Did Water Features Emerge? The translation of hundreds of ancient Greek documents into Latin was commissioned by the learned Pope Nicholas V who ruled the Church in Rome from 1397 until 1455. Embellishing Rome and making it the worthy capital of the Christian world was at the heart of his ambitions. Water Features Emerge? 38079232445148.jpg

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At the behest of the Pope, the Aqua Vergine, a damaged aqueduct which had carried clean drinking water into Rome from eight miles away, was restored starting in 1453. Building a mostra, a grandiose commemorative fountain built by ancient Romans to memorialize the entry point of an aqueduct, was a tradition revived by Nicholas V. The Trevi Fountain now occupies the space previously filled with a wall fountain built by Leon Battista Albert, an architect commissioned by the Pope. The aqueduct he had reconditioned included modifications and extensions which eventually enabled it to supply water to the Trevi Fountain as well as the famed baroque fountains in the Piazza del Popolo and the Piazza Navona.

The Results of the Norman Invasion on Anglo-Saxon Landscaping

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The introduction of the Normans in the later half of the eleventh century substantially altered The Anglo-Saxon ways of living. At the time of the conquest, the Normans surpassed the Anglo-Saxons in building design and cultivation. But before concentrating on home-life or having the occasion to think about domestic architecture or decoration, the Normans had to subjugate an entire population. Most often designed upon windy summits, castles were straightforward constructs that permitted their occupants to devote time and space to offensive and defensive programs, while monasteries were rambling stone buildings generally added in only the most fecund, broad valleys. Gardening, a peaceful occupation, was unfeasible in these unproductive fortifications. The early Anglo-Norman style of architecture is depicted in Berkeley Castle, which is most likely the most unscathed illustration we have. The keep is rumored to have been invented during the time of William the Conqueror. A monumental terrace serves as a hindrance to intruders who would try to mine the walls of the building. A picturesque bowling green, enveloped in grass and bordered by battlements clipped out of an ancient yew hedge, makes one of the terraces.