Bernini: The Master of Italy's Most Impressive Fountains
Bernini: The Master of Italy's Most Impressive Fountains One can see Bernini's very first masterpiece, the Barcaccia water fountain, at the bottom of the Trinita dei Monti in Piaza di Spagna. To this day, this spot is flooded with Roman locals and travelers alike who enjoy conversation and each other's company.
The streets neighboring his water fountain have come to be one of the city’s most stylish gathering places, something which would certainly have pleased Bernini himself. Dating back to around 1630, Pope Urbano VIII commissioned what was to be the earliest water fountain of the artist's career. The fountain’s central theme is based on an enormous boat slowly sinking into the Mediterranean. The great 16th century flood of the Tevere, which left the entire region inundated with water, was memorialized by the fountain according to documents from the period. Absenting himself from Italy only once in his life for a long-lasting time period, in 1665 Bernini traveled to France.
Aqueducts: The Solution to Rome's Water Challenges
Aqueducts: The Solution to Rome's Water Challenges Aqua Anio Vetus, the first raised aqueduct built in Rome, started off providing the people living in the hills with water in 273 BC, though they had counted on natural springs up till then. Throughout this period, there were only two other innovations capable of supplying water to elevated areas, subterranean wells and cisterns, which gathered rainwater.
In the early 16th century, the city began to use the water that flowed underground through Acqua Vergine to furnish drinking water to Pincian Hill. During its initial building and construction, pozzi (or manholes) were situated at set intervals alongside the aqueduct’s channel. Although they were initially manufactured to make it possible to service the aqueduct, Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi started using the manholes to accumulate water from the channel, opening when he purchased the property in 1543. The cistern he had made to collect rainwater wasn’t sufficient to meet his water needs. Fortunately, the aqueduct sat under his residence, and he had a shaft established to give him access.
Statues As a Staple of Classic Art in Archaic Greece
Statues As a Staple of Classic Art in Archaic Greece Archaic Greeks were renowned for creating the first freestanding statuary; up until then, most carvings were formed out of walls and pillars as reliefs. Most of the freestanding statues were of young, winsome male or female (kore) Greeks and are called kouros figures. Considered by Greeks to characterize splendour, the kouroi were formed into stiff, forward facing positions with one foot outstretched, and the male statues were usually nude, brawny, and athletic. Life-sized versions of the kouroi appeared beginning in 650 BC. The Archaic period was turbulent for the Greeks as they progressed into more polished forms of government and art, and gained more information and facts about the peoples and societies outside of Greece.
However, the Greek civilization was not slowed down by these struggles.
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