Fountain Designers Through History
Fountain Designers Through History Multi-talented people, fountain artists from the 16th to the late 18th century often served as architects, sculptors, artists, engineers and highly educated scholars all in one person. Leonardo da Vinci as a innovative master, inventor and scientific expert exemplified this Renaissance master. He carefully registered his findings in his now much celebrated notebooks about his research into the forces of nature and the properties and motion of water.
Combining inventiveness with hydraulic and horticultural abilities, early Italian water feature developers changed private villa settings into amazing water exhibits full of symbolic meaning and natural wonder. The humanist Pirro Ligorio provided the vision behind the wonders in Tivoli and was renowned for his virtuosity in archeology, architecture and garden design. Other fountain engineers, masterminding the extraordinary water marbles, water features and water jokes for the countless domains near Florence, were tried and tested in humanist topics and classical scientific readings.
Bernini’s Early Italian Fountains
Bernini’s Early Italian Fountains
One can see Bernini's very first masterpiece, the Barcaccia water fountain, at the foot of the Trinita dei Monti in Piaza di Spagna. Roman locals and site seers who enjoy conversation as well as being the company of others still flood this spot. Bernini would undoubtedly have been happy to know that people still flock to what has become one the city's trendiest areas, that around his amazing water fountain. The master's very first fountain of his career was built at around 1630 at the behest of Pope Urbano VIII. A massive ship slowly sinking into the Mediterranean is the fountain's central theme. The great flooding of the Tevere that covered the whole region with water in the 16th was commemorated by this momentous fountain as recorded by reports dating back to this period. In 1665 Bernini traveled to France, in what was to be his sole lengthy absence from Italy.
The Broad Range of Outdoor Wall Water Fountains
The Broad Range of Outdoor Wall Water Fountains You can find peace and silence when you add a wall fountain in your garden or patio. You can also make the most of a small space by having one custom-made. A spout, a water basin, internal piping, and a pump are vital for freestanding as well as mounted styles. Traditional, contemporary, antique, and Asian are just a few of the styles from which you can choose.Freestanding wall fountains, otherwise known as floor fountains, are noticeably big and feature a basin on the ground.
A stand-alone fountain can either be integrated onto a wall already in existence or built into a wall under construction. This type of fountain contributes to a cohesive look making it appear as if it was part of the landscape rather than an added feature.