Where did Landscape Fountains Originate from?
Where did Landscape Fountains Originate from? The dramatic or decorative 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.
Originally, fountains only served a practical purpose. People in cities, towns and villages received their drinking water, as well as water to bathe and wash, via aqueducts or springs in the vicinity. Until the late 19th, century most water fountains operated using gravity to allow water to flow or jet into the air, therefore, they needed a supply of water such as a reservoir or aqueduct located higher than the fountain. Fountains were not only used as a water source for drinking water, but also to adorn homes and celebrate the designer who created it. Bronze or stone masks of animals and heroes were frequently seen on Roman fountains. Muslims and Moorish garden designers of the Middle Ages included fountains to re-create smaller versions of the gardens of paradise. Fountains played a considerable role in the Gardens of Versailles, all part of French King Louis XIV’s desire to exert his power over nature. The Popes of the 17th and 18th centuries were glorified with baroque style fountains constructed to mark the arrival points of Roman aqueducts.
Urban fountains built at the end of the 19th century served only as decorative and celebratory adornments since indoor plumbing provided the essential drinking water. Gravity was substituted by mechanical pumps in order to enable fountains to bring in clean water and allow for amazing water displays.
Modern-day fountains function mostly as decoration for open spaces, to honor individuals or events, and enhance entertainment and recreational activities.
Anglo Saxon Gardens During the Norman Conquest
Anglo Saxon Gardens During the Norman Conquest Anglo-Saxons encountered great modifications to their day-to-day lives in the latter half of the eleventh century due to the accession of the Normans. At the time of the conquest, the Normans surpassed the Anglo-Saxons in building design and cultivation. But home life, household architecture, and decoration were out of the question until the Normans taken over the rest of the population. Castles were more standard constructions and often built on blustery hills, where their tenants devoted both time and space to exercising offense and defense, while monasteries were considerable stone buildings, regularly positioned in the widest, most fertile hollows. Gardening, a peaceful occupation, was unfeasible in these unproductive fortifications. Berkeley Castle is most likely the most unchanged model in existence today of the early Anglo-Norman style of architecture. The keep is rumored to have been created during the time of William the Conqueror. A significant terrace serves as a hindrance to invaders who would try to mine the walls of the building. A scenic bowling green, enveloped in grass and enclosed by battlements cut out of an ancient yew hedge, makes one of the terraces.