Bernini: The Master of Italy's Most Impressive Water Fountains
Bernini: The Master of Italy's Most Impressive Water Fountains Bernini's earliest water fountain, named Barcaccia, is a breath taking work of art found at the foot of the Trinita dei Monti in Piaza di Spagna. To this day, this area is filled with Roman locals and tourists alike who enjoy debate and each other's company. Bernini would undoubtedly have been happy to know that people still flock to what has become one the city's most fashionable areas, that around his amazing fountain. In about 1630, the great artist designed the first water fountain of his career at the behest of Pope Ubano VIII. The fountain’s central motif is based on a massive boat slowly sinking into the Mediterranean Sea. The great flooding of the Tevere that covered the whole region with water in the 16th was memorialized by this momentous fountain as recorded by reports dating back to this time.
In 1665, France was graced by Bernini's only lengthy voyage outside of Italy.
Attributes of Garden Statues in Archaic Greece
Attributes of Garden Statues in Archaic Greece Archaic Greeks were known for providing the first freestanding statuary; up until then, most carvings were made out of walls and pillars as reliefs.
Most of these freestanding sculptures were what is known as kouros figures, statues of young, attractive male or female (kore) Greeks. Regarded as by Greeks to embody beauty, the kouroi were structured into rigid, forward facing positions with one foot outstretched, and the male statues were always nude, muscular, and fit. Life-sized versions of the kouroi appeared beginning in 650 BC. The Archaic period was tumultuous for the Greeks as they progressed into more refined forms of government and art, and gained more data about the peoples and civilizations outside of Greece. Still these disagreements did not prevent the emergence of the Greek civilization. {
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