Outdoor Fountain Engineers Through History

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Outdoor Fountain Engineers Through History Often serving as architects, sculptors, artists, engineers and cultivated scholars all in one, from the 16th to the later part of the 18th century, fountain designers were multi-faceted individuals, Leonardo da Vinci as a imaginative master, inventor and scientific virtuoso exemplified this Renaissance master. He carefully recorded his experiences in his currently celebrated notebooks, following his immense fascination in the forces of nature guided him to explore the qualities and mobility of water. Early Italian water feature engineers converted private villa configurations into amazing water displays full with emblematic meaning and natural elegance by combining imagination with hydraulic and horticultural talent. The magnificence in Tivoli were created by the humanist Pirro Ligorio, who was renowned for his skill in archeology, architecture and garden design. For the many properties close to Florence, other fountain engineers were well versed in humanist subjects and ancient scientific texts, masterminding the incredible water marbles, water attributes and water jokes.

Original Water Supply Solutions in The City Of Rome

Original Water Supply Solutions in The City Of Rome With the construction of the first raised aqueduct in Rome, the Aqua Anio Vetus in 273 BC, people who lived on the city’s foothills no longer had to rely solely on naturally-occurring spring water for their needs. During this time period, there were only 2 other innovations capable of offering water to high areas, subterranean wells and cisterns, which gathered rainwater. Starting in the sixteenth century, a unique program was introduced, using Acqua Vergine’s subterranean sections to deliver water to Pincian Hill. Pozzi, or manholes, were constructed at regular stretches along the aqueduct’s channel. The manholes made it easier to thoroughly clean the channel, but it was also possible to use buckets to pull water from the aqueduct, as we discovered with Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi when he bought the property from 1543 to 1552, the year he passed away. Although the cardinal also had a cistern to accumulate rainwater, it didn’t supply sufficient water. Thankfully, the aqueduct sat just below his property, and he had a shaft opened to give him accessibility.