Your Patio: A Great Place for a Fountain

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You can perfect your exterior area by adding a wall fountain or an outdoor garden water feature to your property or gardening project. Any number of current designers and fountain craftsmen have found ideas in the fountains and water features of the past. As such, introducing one of these to your home design is a great way to connect it to the past. The benefit of having a garden fountain goes beyond its beauty as it also attracts birds and other wildlife, in addition to harmonizing the ecosystem with the water and moisture it releases into the atmosphere. For example, birds lured by a fountain or birdbath can be useful because they fend off annoying flying insects.

Spouting or cascading fountains are not the best alternative for a small yard since they occupy a great deal of space. Two possibilities to pick from include either a freestanding type with an even back set against a fence or wall in your backyard, or a wall-mounted, self-contained type which hangs on a wall. Both a fountain mask placed on the existing wall as well as a basin located at the bottom to collect the water are equired if you wish to include a fountain. The plumbing and masonry work necessary for this type of work requires training, so it is best to hire a skilled person rather than go at it yourself.

The Source of Today's Wall Fountains

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Himself a learned man, Pope Nicholas V led the Roman Catholic Church from 1397 till 1455 and was responsible for the translation of hundreds of age-old texts from their original Greek into Latin. It was imperative for him to embellish the city of Rome to make it worthy of being known as the capital of the Christian world. In 1453 the Pope commissioned the repairing of the Aqua Vergine, an historic Roman aqueduct which had carried fresh drinking water into the city from eight miles away. Building a mostra, an imposing celebratory fountain built by ancient Romans to memorialize the entry point of an aqueduct, was a custom revived by Nicholas V. At the bidding of the Pope, architect Leon Battista Alberti began the construction of a wall fountain in the spot where we now find the Trevi Fountain. Changes 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.

Gian Bernini's Public Fountains

Gian Bernini's Public Fountains There are many famous water features in the city center of Rome. Nearly all of them were designed, conceived and constructed by one of the finest sculptors and designers of the 17th century, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. His expertise as a water fountain creator and also as a city architect, are evident throughout the roads of Rome. To fully exhibit their art, chiefly in the form of community water features and water features, Bernini's father, a celebrated Florentine sculptor, guided his young son, and they ultimately relocated in Rome. The juvenile Bernini was an great worker and attained encouragement and patronage of important artists as well as popes. At the start he was celebrated for his sculptural expertise. Working faultlessly with Roman marble, he used a base of experience in the classic Greek architecture, most obviously in the Vatican. Though many artists had an impact on his work, Michelangelo had the most profound effect.