Bernini's First Masterpieces
Bernini's First Masterpieces
The Barcaccia, Bernini's very first fountain, is a striking chef d'oeuvre built at the foot of the Trinita dei Monti in Piaza di Spagna. This area continues to be filled with Roman locals and tourists who like to exchanging gossip or going over the day's news. Today, the city streets around Bernini's fountain are a trendy area where people go to meet, something which the artist would have been pleased to learn. Dating back to around 1630, Pope Urbano VIII commissioned what was to be the earliest fountain of the master's career. Illustrated in the fountain's design is a great ship gradually sinking into the Mediterranean Sea. The great flooding of the Tevere that covered the whole region with water in the 16th was commemorated by this momentous fountain as recorded by reports dating back to this time. In 1665, France was graced by Bernini's one-and-only lengthy journey outside of Italy.
The Impact of the Norman Invasion on Anglo Saxon Gardens
The Impact of the Norman Invasion on Anglo Saxon Gardens The Anglo-Saxon way of life was drastically changed by the arrival of the Normans in the later eleventh century. The Normans were much better than the Anglo-Saxons at architecture and horticulture when they came into power. But home life, household architecture, and decoration were out of the question until the Normans taken over the rest of the populace. Monasteries and castles served different purposes, so while monasteries were enormous stone structures assembled in only the most productive, wide dales, castles were set upon blustery knolls where the occupants focused on learning offensive and defensive practices. The bare fortresses did not provide for the quiet avocation of horticulture. Berkeley Castle, potentially the most unspoiled style of the early Anglo-Norman style of architecture, still exists now. It is said that the keep was introduced during William the Conqueror's time. An enormous terrace encompasses the building, serving as an obstruction to assailants intending to excavate under the castle walls. One of these terraces, a charming bowling green, is covered grass and flanked by an aged yew hedge cut into the figure of crude battlements.
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