The History of Garden Water Fountains
The History of Garden Water Fountains Pope Nicholas V, himself a well educated man, reigned the Roman Catholic Church from 1397 to 1455 during which time he commissioned many translations of ancient classic Greek texts into Latin. It was imperative for him to embellish the city of Rome to make it worthy of being called the capital of the Christian world. In 1453 the Pope commissioned the repairing of the Aqua Vergine, an historic Roman aqueduct which had carried fresh drinking water into the city from eight miles away. Building a mostra, a grandiose celebratory fountain built by ancient Romans to memorialize the arrival point of an aqueduct, was a custom revived by Nicholas V. The architect Leon Battista Alberti was commissioned by the Pope to put up a wall fountain where we now see the Trevi Fountain.
Modifications and extensions, included in the repaired aqueduct, eventually supplied the Trevi Fountain and the well-known baroque fountains in the Piazza del Popolo and Piazza Navona with the necessary water supply.
Bernini’s Very First Italian Fountains
Bernini’s Very First Italian Fountains One can find Bernini's earliest masterpiece, the Barcaccia fountain, at the base of the Trinita dei Monti in Piaza di Spagna. To this day, you will find Roman locals and vacation goers occupying this area to revel in chit chatter and being among other people. Today, the city streets around Bernini's fountain are a trendy place where people go to gather, something which the artist would have been pleased to learn.
In about 1630, the great artist designed the first water fountain of his career at the behest of Pope Ubano VIII. A massive vessel slowly sinking into the Mediterranean is the fountain's central theme. The great 16th century flooding of the Tevere, which left the entire region inundated with water, was memorialized by the fountain according to writings from the period. In what became his one and only extended absence from Italy, Bernini {journeyed | traveled] to France in 1665.
Himself a learned man, Pope Nicholas V headed the Roman Catholic Church from 1397 till 1455 and was responsible for the translation of scores of ancient documents from their original Greek into Latin....
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Even though the majority of sculptors were compensated by the temples to decorate the detailed columns and archways with renderings of the gods of old, as the period came to a close, it became more prevalent for sculptors to represent ordinary people as well mainly because plenty of Greeks had started to think of their religion as superstitious rather than sacred....
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Indoor fountains are a useful addition in hospitals and wellness clinics because they add a peaceful, tranquil essence to them.Lightly falling water lulls people into a state of meditation....
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Though most sculptors were paid by the temples to decorate the detailed columns and archways with renderings of the gods, as the period came to a close, it became more common for sculptors to depict ordinary people as well mainly because many of Greeks had started to think of their religion as superstitious rather than sacred....
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