The Source of Modern Day Garden Water Fountains

The Source of Modern Day Garden Water Fountains Hundreds of ancient Greek texts were translated into Latin under the auspices of the scholarly Pope Nicholas V, who ruled the Roman Catholic Church from 1397 to 1455. He undertook the beautification of Rome to turn it into the model seat of the Christian world. Starting in 1453, the ruined ancient Roman aqueduct known as the Aqua Vergine which had brought fresh drinking water into the city from eight miles away, underwent reconstruction at the behest of the Pope. The ancient Roman tradition of building an imposing commemorative fountain at the point where an aqueduct arrived, also known as a mostra, was revived by Nicholas V. The Trevi Fountain now occupies the area formerly filled with a wall fountain built by Leon Battista Albert, an architect employed by the Pope. The aqueduct he had reconditioned included modifications and extensions which eventually allowed it to supply water to the Trevi Fountain as well as the famed baroque fountains in the Piazza del Popolo and the Piazza Navona.

"Old School" Garden Fountain Creative Designers

Fountain designers were multi-talented individuals from the 16th to the later part of the 18th century, often serving as architects, sculptors, artisans, engineers and cultivated scholars all in one. Throughout the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci illustrated the artist as a imaginative master, creator and scientific expert. The forces of nature guided him to explore the properties and motion of water, and due to his curiosity, he methodically documented his observations in his now renowned notebooks. Converting private villa settings into ingenious water showcases complete of symbolic significance and natural wonder, early Italian water feature engineers fused resourcefulness with hydraulic and gardening abilities. The humanist Pirro Ligorio brought the vision behind the wonders in Tivoli and was renowned for his abilities in archeology, architecture and garden concepts. Other water fountain developers, masterminding the phenomenal water marbles, water attributes and water jokes for the many mansions in the vicinity of Florence, were tried and tested in humanistic topics and traditional scientific texts.