"Old School" Garden Fountain Designers
"Old School" Garden Fountain Designers Often working as architects, sculptors, artists, engineers and highly educated scholars all in one, from the 16th to the late 18th century, fountain designers were multi-faceted individuals, During the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci exemplified the artist as an creative intellect, inventor and scientific specialist. He methodically recorded his findings in his now celebrated notebooks about his research into the forces of nature and the qualities and mobility of water. Early Italian water feature builders changed private villa configurations into innovative water displays complete of symbolic meaning and natural elegance by coupling creativity with hydraulic and gardening talent.
Early Water Supply Solutions in Rome
Early Water Supply Solutions in Rome Rome’s 1st raised aqueduct, Aqua Anio Vetus, was built in 273 BC; prior to that, people residing at higher elevations had to rely on local springs for their water. Outside of these aqueducts and springs, wells and rainwater-collecting cisterns were the lone technological innovations readily available at the time to supply water to locations of higher elevation. In the very early sixteenth century, the city began to use the water that flowed underground through Acqua Vergine to provide water to Pincian Hill.