How Mechanical Designs of Outdoor Spread

How Mechanical Designs of Outdoor Spread Dissiminating practical hydraulic knowledge and fountain design ideas throughout Europe was accomplished with the written documents and illustrated books of the time. An internationally celebrated leader in hydraulics in the later part of the 1500's was a French water fountain engineer, whose name has been lost to history. With imperial mandates in Brussels, London and Germany, he began his work in Italy, building knowledge in garden design and grottoes with integrated and clever water features. He authored a book titled “The Principles of Moving Forces” toward the conclusion of his life while in France that came to be the fundamental tome on hydraulic mechanics and engineering. Explaining contemporary hydraulic systems, the publication also modified critical hydraulic breakthroughs of classical antiquity. The water screw, a technical method to move water, and invented by Archimedes, was featured in the book. An beautiful water feature with sunlight warming the liquid in two containers stashed in a adjacent accommodation was presented in one illustration. The end result: the water feature is triggered by the heated liquid expanding and rising up the piping. Pumps, water wheels, water features and garden pond styles are covered in the book.

Bernini’s First Italian Water Fountains

Bernini’s First Italian Water Fountains Bernini's earliest water fountain, named Barcaccia, is a masterful work of art seen at the bottom of the Trinita dei Monti in Piaza di Spagna. This spot is still filled with Roman locals and tourists who enjoy exchanging gossip or going over the day's news. The streets neighboring his water fountain have come to be one of the city’s most trendy gathering places, something which would certainly have pleased Bernini himself. The master's very first water fountain of his professional life was built at around 1630 at the request of Pope Urbano VIII. Illustrated in the fountain's design is a great vessel gradually sinking into the Mediterranean Sea. According to 16th century documents, a great flood of the Tevere covered the entire area in water, an event which was memorialized by the magnificent fountain. Absenting himself from Italy only once in his life for a prolonged time period, in 1665 Bernini voyaged to France.

A Chronicle of Outdoor Garden Fountains

A Chronicle of Outdoor Garden Fountains Hundreds of classic Greek documents were translated into Latin under the auspices of the scholarly Pope Nicholas V, who led the Roman Catholic Church from 1397 to 1455. Embellishing Rome and making it the worthy capital of the Christian world was at the heart of his ambitions. At the bidding of the Pope, the Aqua Vergine, a damaged aqueduct which had transported clean drinking water into Rome from eight miles away, was renovated starting in 1453. The ancient Roman custom of building an awe-inspiring commemorative fountain at the point where an aqueduct arrived, also known as a mostra, was resurrected by Nicholas V. The architect Leon Battista Alberti was directed by the Pope to construct a wall fountain where we now find the Trevi Fountain. Chronicle Outdoor Garden Fountains 061123227298.jpg

Chronicle Outdoor Garden Fountains 061123227298.jpg

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.