Discover Tranquility with Outdoor Water Features

Discover Tranquility with Outdoor Water Features Water adds tranquility to your garden environment. The noise in your community can be masked by the soft sounds of a fountain. This is a great spot to relax and experience nature around you. Many therapies use water as a recuperation element, going to places such as the seaside and rivers for their remedies. If what you seek out is a calming place where you can take your body and your mind to a faraway place, set up a pond or fountain in your garden.

Rome’s Ingenious Water Transport Solutions

Rome’s Ingenious Water Transport Solutions Previous to 273, when the 1st elevated aqueduct, Aqua Anio Vetus, was established in Roma, residents who dwelled on hills had to journey further down to collect their water from natural sources. Outside of these aqueducts and springs, wells and rainwater-collecting cisterns were the only techniques around at the time to supply water to segments of high elevation. To offer water to Pincian Hill in the early sixteenth century, they utilized the new technique of redirecting the stream from the Acqua Vergine aqueduct’s underground channel. As originally constructed, the aqueduct was provided along the length of its channel with pozzi (manholes) constructed at regular intervals. Even though they were initially planned to make it possible to support the aqueduct, Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi started using the manholes to accumulate water from the channel, commencing when he bought the property in 1543. The cistern he had made to collect rainwater wasn’t sufficient to meet his water specifications. Rome’s Ingenious Water Transport Solutions 85841701783081.jpg

Thankfully, the aqueduct sat under his residence, and he had a shaft established to give him accessibility.

The First Contemporary Outdoor Wall Fountains

The First Contemporary Outdoor Wall Fountains Pope Nicholas V, himself a learned man, ruled the Roman Catholic Church from 1397 to 1455 during which time he commissioned many translations of ancient classical Greek texts into Latin. Beautifying Rome and making it the worthy capital of the Christian world was at the center of his objectives. Beginning 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 repair at the behest of the Pope. The ancient Roman custom of building an awe-inspiring commemorative fountain at the point where an aqueduct arrived, also known as a mostra, was revived by Nicholas V. The present-day location of the Trevi Fountain was formerly occupied by a wall fountain commissioned by the Pope and constructed by the architect Leon Battista Alberti. Modifications and extensions, included in the restored 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 Garden Fountains

Bernini's Garden Fountains There are many renowned water features in the city center of Rome. Bernini's Garden Fountains 81352730.jpg

Practically all of them were designed, conceived and built by one of the greatest sculptors and artists of the 17th century, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. His skills as a fountain designer and also as a city architect, are visible throughout the avenues of Rome. A famous Florentine sculptor, Bernini's father mentored his young son, and they eventually moved to Rome to fully showcase their art, primarily in the form of public water fountains and water fountains. An exemplary employee, Bernin earned praise and the patronage of popes and important painters. He was initially recognized for his sculpture. Working faultlessly with Roman marble, he used a base of knowledge in the historical Greek architecture, most notably in the Vatican. Although many artists had an influence on his work, Michelangelo had the most profound effect.