Fountain Engineers Through History
Fountain Engineers Through History Water feature designers were multi-talented people from the 16th to the late 18th century, often working as architects, sculptors, artisans, engineers and cultivated scholars all in one. Leonardo da Vinci as a imaginative master, inventor and scientific virtuoso exemplified this Renaissance artist.
He systematically noted his observations in his currently famed notebooks, after his tremendous curiosity in the forces of nature guided him to explore the attributes and movement of water. Early Italian fountain designers transformed private villa settings into ingenious water exhibits full of symbolic meaning and natural beauty by combining creativity with hydraulic and horticultural experience. The humanist Pirro Ligorio, celebrated for his virtuosity in archeology, architecture and garden design, offered the vision behind the wonders in Tivoli. For the various mansions close to Florence, other water fountain designers were well versed in humanistic topics and classical technical texts, masterminding the phenomenal water marbles, water attributes and water humor.
Anglo-Saxon Gardens During the Norman Conquest
Anglo-Saxon Gardens During the Norman Conquest Anglo-Saxons experienced incredible changes to their day-to-day lives in the latter half of the eleventh century due to the accession of the Normans. Engineering and horticulture were attributes that the Normans excelled in, trumping that of the Anglo-Saxons at the time of the occupation.
But home life, household architecture, and decoration were out of the question until the Normans taken over the entire populace. Most often built upon windy summits, castles were basic structures that enabled their inhabitants to devote time and space to offensive and defensive schemes, while monasteries were rambling stone buildings frequently placed in only the most fecund, extensive valleys. The calm method of gardening was impractical in these bleak bastions. The early Anglo-Norman style of architecture is depicted in Berkeley Castle, which is most likely the most unscathed sample we have. The keep is said to date from William the Conqueror's time. As a method of deterring attackers from tunneling under the walls, an immense terrace encircles the building. One of these terraces, a charming bowling green, is covered grass and flanked by an old yew hedge trimmed into the figure of crude battlements.
Contemporary Garden Decor: Fountains and their Roots
Contemporary Garden Decor: Fountains and their Roots The amazing or ornamental effect of a fountain is just one of the purposes it fulfills, as well as providing drinking water and adding a decorative touch to your property.Pure practicality was the original role of fountains. Water fountains were connected to a spring or aqueduct to provide drinkable water as well as bathing water for cities, townships and villages. Used until the nineteenth century, in order for fountains to flow or shoot up into the air, their source of water such as reservoirs or aqueducts, had to be higher than the water fountain in order to benefit from gravity. Artists thought of fountains as amazing additions to a living space, however, the fountains also served to provide clean water and honor the artist responsible for building it.
Roman fountains often depicted images of animals or heroes made of metal or stone masks. Muslims and Moorish landscaping designers of the Middle Ages included fountains to re-create smaller models of the gardens of paradise. To show his dominance over nature, French King Louis XIV included fountains in the Garden of Versailles. The Popes of the 17th and 18th centuries were glorified with baroque style fountains made to mark the arrival points of Roman aqueducts.
Since indoor plumbing became the standard of the day for fresh, drinking water, by the end of the 19th century urban fountains were no longer needed for this purpose and they became purely decorative. Gravity was replaced by mechanical pumps in order to enable fountains to bring in clean water and allow for amazing water displays.
Nowadays, fountains decorate public spaces and are used to recognize individuals or events and fill recreational and entertainment needs.