Bernini's Earliest Showpieces
Bernini's Earliest Showpieces One can see Bernini's earliest masterpiece, the Barcaccia fountain, at the foot of the Trinita dei Monti in Piaza di Spagna. To this day, this spot is filled with Roman locals and travelers alike who enjoy debate and each other's company. Bernini would without a doubt have been happy to know that people still flock to what has become one the city's most fashionable areas, that around his amazing fountain. Dating back to around 1630, Pope Urbano VIII mandated what was to be the earliest water fountain of the master's career.
The fountain’s central motif is based on an enormous ship slowly sinking into the Mediterranean Sea. The great 16th century flooding of the Tevere, which left the entire region inundated with water, was memorialized by the water fountain according to writings from the period. In 1665, France was graced by Bernini's only prolonged voyage outside of Italy.
A Concise History of the First Public Water Fountains
A Concise History of the First Public Water Fountains Water fountains were originally practical in purpose, used to deliver water from canals or creeks to cities and hamlets, providing the inhabitants with clean water to drink, wash, and prepare food with. To make water flow through a fountain until the later part of the 1800’s, and generate a jet of water, required gravity and a water source such as a creek or reservoir, situated higher than the fountain. Commonly used as monuments and commemorative edifices, water fountains have influenced people from all over the planet all through the ages. When you encounter a fountain today, that is certainly not what the first water fountains looked like. The 1st accepted water fountain was a natural stone basin created that served as a receptacle for drinking water and ceremonial purposes. Rock basins are believed to have been first used around 2000 BC. The earliest civilizations that used fountains depended on gravity to drive water through spigots. Drinking water was provided by public fountains, long before fountains became ornate public monuments, as attractive as they are functional. The people of Rome began creating decorative fountains in 6 BC, most of which were metallic or stone masks of creatures and mythological representations.
Water for the open fountains of Rome was brought to the city via a complex system of water aqueducts.
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