Water Features Found in Historical Documents

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Water Features Found in Historical Documents Villages and villages depended on working water fountains to funnel water for preparing food, bathing, and cleaning up from nearby sources like ponds, streams, or springs. A source of water higher in elevation than the fountain was necessary to pressurize the flow and send water spraying from the fountain's nozzle, a system without equal until the later part of the nineteenth century. Inspirational and spectacular, big water fountains have been built as monuments in nearly all societies. The common fountains of today bear little likeness to the first water fountains. Uncomplicated stone basins created from local material were the original fountains, used for spiritual purposes and drinking water. 2000 BC is when the earliest known stone fountain basins were originally used. Early fountains used in ancient civilizations depended on gravity to manipulate the circulation of water through the fountain. The location of the fountains was determined by the water source, which is why you’ll usually find them along aqueducts, waterways, or rivers. The Romans began building elaborate fountains in 6 B.C., most of which were metallic or stone masks of animals and mythological heroes. A well-designed system of reservoirs and aqueducts kept Rome's public fountains supplied with fresh water.

A Chronicle of Garden Fountains

A Chronicle of Garden Fountains 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 ancient documents from their original Greek into Latin. Beautifying Rome and making it the worthy capital of the Christian world was at the heart of his ambitions. In 1453 the Pope instigated the reconstruction of the Aqua Vergine, an ancient Roman aqueduct which had carried clean drinking water into the city from eight miles away. The historical Roman custom of marking the entry point of an aqueduct with an imposing celebratory fountain, also known as a mostra, was restored by Nicholas V. The present-day site of the Trevi Fountain was previously occupied by a wall fountain commissioned by the Pope and constructed by the architect Leon Battista Alberti. The water which eventually provided the Trevi Fountain as well as the famed baroque fountains in the Piazza del Popolo and Piazza Navona flowed from the modified aqueduct which he had renovated.