The Wide Range of Wall Fountains
The Wide Range of Wall Fountains A small patio or a courtyard is a great spot to put your wall fountain when you seek peace and quiet. Even a little space can include a customized one. A spout, a water basin, internal piping, and a pump are essential for freestanding as well as mounted styles. You have many models to a lot to pick from whether you are searching for a traditional, modern, classical, or Asian style.Stand-alone wall fountains, commonly known as floor fountains, are relatively big and feature a basin on the ground.
You can choose to place your wall-mounted feature on an existing wall or build it into a new wall.
This type of fountain adds to a cohesive look making it appear as if it was part of the landscape instead of an added feature.
Aqueducts: The Solution to Rome's Water Challenges
Aqueducts: The Solution to Rome's Water Challenges Prior to 273, when the very first elevated aqueduct, Aqua Anio Vetus, was made in Rome, residents who lived on hillsides had to go further down to collect their water from natural sources. Throughout this period, there were only 2 other technologies capable of supplying water to high areas, subterranean wells and cisterns, which gathered rainwater. Beginning in the sixteenth century, a newer approach was introduced, using Acqua Vergine’s subterranean segments to deliver water to Pincian Hill.
Throughout the length of the aqueduct’s network were pozzi, or manholes, that gave access. The manholes made it more straightforward to maintain the channel, but it was also possible to use buckets to pull water from the aqueduct, as we witnessed with Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi when he owned the property from 1543 to 1552, the year he died. It seems that, the rainwater cistern on his property wasn’t good enough to fulfill his needs. Through an orifice to the aqueduct that ran below his property, he was able to reach his water demands.
The Source of Modern Outdoor Fountains
The Source of Modern Outdoor Fountains The translation of hundreds of classical Greek texts into Latin was commissioned by the scholarly Pope Nicholas V who ruled the Church in Rome from 1397 until 1455. Embellishing Rome and making it the worthy capital of the Christian world was at the center of his ambitions. In 1453 the Pope instigated the repairing of the Aqua Vergine, an historic Roman aqueduct which had carried fresh drinking water into the city from eight miles away. The ancient Roman custom of marking the arrival point of an aqueduct with an imposing celebratory fountain, also known as a mostra, was restored by Nicholas V. The architect Leon Battista Alberti was commissioned by the Pope to build a wall fountain where we now find the Trevi Fountain.
The water which eventually furnished the Trevi Fountain as well as the renown baroque fountains in the Piazza del Popolo and Piazza Navona flowed from the modified aqueduct which he had renovated.