Inventors of the First Water Features

Inventors of the First Water Features Multi-talented individuals, fountain artists from the 16th to the late 18th century frequently worked as architects, sculptors, artists, engineers and highly educated scholars all in one person. During the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci illustrated the artist as a innovative wizard, inventor and scientific virtuoso. Inventors First Water Features 2975878842571.jpg

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He methodically registered his findings in his now much celebrated notebooks about his investigations into the forces of nature and the attributes and motion of water. Transforming private villa settings into ingenious water showcases complete with symbolic significance and natural beauty, early Italian fountain designers fused imagination with hydraulic and gardening ability. The humanist Pirro Ligorio, celebrated for his virtuosity in archeology, architecture and garden design, offered the vision behind the splendors in Tivoli. For the many lands near Florence, other water feature developers were well versed in humanist topics and classical technical texts, masterminding the excellent water marbles, water features and water humor.

Landscape Fountains: The Perfect Decor Accessory to Find Peace

Landscape Fountains: The Perfect Decor Accessory to Find Peace You can find peace and tranquility by simply having water in your garden. The loud noises in your neighborhood can be masked by the delicate sounds of a fountain. Consider this the place where can you go to have fun and become one with nature. Bodies of water such as seas, oceans and rivers are commonly used in water therapies, as they are considered therapeutic. Landscape Fountains: Perfect Decor Accessory Find Peace 3894044344084234906.jpg

Landscape Fountains: Perfect Decor Accessory Find Peace 3894044344084234906.jpg

If what you seek is a calming place where you can take your body and your mind to a faraway place, set up a pond or fountain in your garden.

Anglo-Saxon Grounds at the Time of the Norman Conquest

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Anglo-Saxon Grounds at the Time of the Norman Conquest Anglo-Saxons encountered extraordinary modifications to their day-to-day lives in the latter half of the eleventh century due to the accession of the Normans. The Normans were much better than the Anglo-Saxons at architecture and horticulture when they came into power. But yet there was no time for home life, domestic architecture, and adornment until the Normans had overcome the whole realm. Most often built upon windy summits, castles were fundamental constructs that permitted their occupants to devote time and space to offensive and defensive programs, while monasteries were rambling stone buildings generally placed in only the most fecund, extensive valleys. The calm practice of gardening was not viable in these dismal bastions. Berkeley Castle is possibly the most unchanged model in existence today of the early Anglo-Norman form of architecture. The keep is thought to date from the time of William the Conqueror. An enormous terrace encompasses the building, serving as an impediment to attackers intending to excavate under the castle walls. One of these terraces, a charming bowling green, is covered grass and flanked by an aged yew hedge trimmed into the shape of crude battlements.