Classic Greece: The Roots of Garden Statue Design

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Classic Greece: The Roots of Garden Statue Design Nearly all sculptors were paid by the temples to accentuate the elaborate columns and archways with renderings of the gods right up until the period came to a close and countless Greeks started to think of their religion as superstitious rather than sacred, when it became more typical for sculptors to portray everyday men and women as well. Often times, a interpretation of wealthy families' ancestors would be commissioned to be located inside of huge familial tombs, and portraiture, which would be replicated by the Romans upon their conquest of Greek civilization, also became customary. The use of sculpture and other art forms differed over the many years of The Greek Classical period, a duration of artistic progress when the arts had more than one objective. Greek sculpture is perhaps fascinating to us all today as it was an avant-garde experiment in the historic world, so it doesn't make a difference whether its original purpose was religious zeal or artistic pleasure.

Acqua Vergine: The Answer to Rome's Water Troubles

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With the manufacturing of the 1st elevated aqueduct in Rome, the Aqua Anio Vetus in 273 BC, people who lived on the city’s hills no longer had to be dependent solely on naturally-occurring spring water for their demands. Outside of these aqueducts and springs, wells and rainwater-collecting cisterns were the sole technological innovations around at the time to supply water to spots of high elevation. To provide water to Pincian Hill in the early sixteenth century, they implemented the new approach of redirecting the motion from the Acqua Vergine aqueduct’s underground network. Spanning the length of the aqueduct’s channel were pozzi, or manholes, that gave access. Although they were initially developed to make it possible to support the aqueduct, Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi started out using the manholes to gather water from the channel, commencing when he purchased the property in 1543. He didn’t get enough water from the cistern that he had established on his residential property to collect rainwater. That is when he made a decision to create an access point to the aqueduct that ran directly below his residence.