The Water Garden Fountains

The Water Garden Fountains Villages and villages depended on practical water fountains to channel water for cooking, bathing, and cleaning up from local sources like lakes, streams, or creeks. In the years before electricity, the spray of fountains was powered by gravity only, commonly using an aqueduct or water source located far away in the surrounding mountains. Fountains throughout history have been created as monuments, impressing hometown citizens and visitors alike. When you see a fountain nowadays, that is definitely not what the first water fountains looked like. Simple stone basins crafted from local material were the very first fountains, used for spiritual purposes and drinking water. Pure stone basins as fountains have been uncovered from 2,000 B.C.. Early fountains used in ancient civilizations depended on gravity to manipulate the flow of water through the fountain. Drinking water was provided by public fountains, long before fountains became decorative public monuments, as striking as they are functional. Animals, Gods, and religious figures dominated the very early decorative Roman fountains, starting to appear in about 6 BC. Water for the public fountains of Rome arrived to the city via a elaborate system of water aqueducts.

At What Point Did Water Features Emerge?

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At What Point 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. He undertook the beautification of Rome to turn it into the model capital of the Christian world. Restoration of the Acqua Vergine, a desolate Roman aqueduct which had transported clean drinking water into the city from eight miles away, began in 1453 at the bidding of the Pope. The ancient Roman tradition of building an awe-inspiring commemorative fountain at the point where an aqueduct arrived, also known as a mostra, was revived by Nicholas V. The architect Leon Battista Alberti was directed by the Pope to put up a wall fountain where we now see the Trevi Fountain. The water which eventually supplied the Trevi Fountain as well as the famed baroque fountains in the Piazza del Popolo and Piazza Navona flowed from the modified aqueduct which he had renovated.