The Results of the Norman Conquest on Anglo-Saxon Garden Design

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The Results of the Norman Conquest on Anglo-Saxon Garden Design Anglo-Saxons felt great changes to their daily lives in the latter half of the eleventh century due to the accession of the Normans. The Normans were better than the Anglo-Saxons at architecture and horticulture when they came into power. But nevertheless home life, household architecture, and decoration were out of the question until the Normans taken over the rest of the populace. Monasteries and castles served different purposes, so while monasteries were massive stone structures constructed in only the most productive, wide dales, castles were set upon blustery knolls where the people focused on learning offensive and defensive tactics. Gardening, a placid occupation, was impracticable in these fruitless fortifications. The early Anglo-Norman style of architecture is depicted in Berkeley Castle, which is conceivably the most unscathed illustration we have. The keep is reported to have been conceived during the time of William the Conqueror. As a method of deterring attackers from tunneling under the walls, an immense terrace encompasses the building. A scenic bowling green, covered in grass and enclosed by battlements cut out of an ancient yew hedge, creates one of the terraces.

When and Where Did Water Fountains Originate?

When and Where Did Water Fountains Originate? Pope Nicholas V, himself a well educated man, reigned the Roman Catholic Church from 1397 to 1455 during which time he commissioned many translations of old classical Greek documents into Latin. It was important for him to beautify the city of Rome to make it worthy of being known as the capital of the Christian world. Beginning in 1453, the ruined ancient Roman aqueduct known as the Aqua Vergine which had brought clean drinking water into the city from eight miles away, underwent repair at the bidding of the Pope. A mostra, a monumental dedicatory fountain built by ancient Romans to mark the point of arrival of an aqueduct, was a practice which was restored by Nicholas V. Water Fountains Originate? 1244180157978973021.jpg

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The Trevi Fountain now occupies the space previously filled with a wall fountain crafted by Leon Battista Albert, an architect commissioned by the Pope. Adjustments and extensions, included in the repaired aqueduct, eventually supplied the Trevi Fountain and the well-known baroque fountains in the Piazza del Popolo and Piazza Navona with the necessary water supply.

Architectural Sculpture in Historic Greece

Architectural Sculpture in Historic Greece Traditionally, most sculptors were compensated by the temples to decorate the involved columns and archways with renderings of the gods, however as the era came to a close it grew to be more common for sculptors to portray ordinary people as well because many Greeks had begun to think of their institution as superstitious rather than sacred. Sometimes, a interpretation of affluent families' forefathers would be commissioned to be located inside of huge familial burial tombs, and portraiture, which would be copied by the Romans upon their conquest of Greek civilization, also became commonplace. A time of artistic progression, the use of sculpture and alternate art forms transformed throughout the Greek Classical period, so it is inaccurate to assume that the arts provided only one function. Whether to gratify a visual yearning or to rejoice in the figures of religion, Greek sculpture was actually an innovative approach in the ancient world, which may be what draws our focus today.