The Original Garden Fountain Designers
The Original Garden Fountain Designers
Often serving as architects, sculptors, artists, engineers and cultivated scholars, all in one, fountain creators were multi-talented people from the 16th to the late 18th century. Leonardo da Vinci, a Renaissance artist, was notable as a imaginative genius, inventor and scientific virtuoso. The forces of nature inspired him to explore the properties and motion of water, and due to his fascination, he methodically captured his experiences in his now celebrated notebooks. Transforming private villa configurations into innovative water displays packed of symbolic significance and natural beauty, early Italian water feature engineers combined creativity with hydraulic and horticultural ability. Known for his incredible skill in archeology, architecture and garden design, Pirro Ligorio, the humanist, delivered the vision behind the wonders in Tivoli. Other fountain designers, masterminding the phenomenal water marbles, water functions and water antics for the many properties near Florence, were tried and tested in humanistic subject areas and traditional scientific texts.
Acqua Vergine: The Remedy to Rome's Water Challenges
Acqua Vergine: The Remedy to Rome's Water Challenges With the building of the 1st elevated aqueduct in Rome, the Aqua Anio Vetus in 273 BC, people who lived on the city’s foothills no longer had to depend strictly on naturally-occurring spring water for their needs. Over this time period, there were only two other technologies capable of delivering water to high areas, subterranean wells and cisterns, which gathered rainwater. Beginning in the sixteenth century, a new program was introduced, using Acqua Vergine’s subterranean sectors to generate water to Pincian Hill. As originally constructed, the aqueduct was provided along the length of its channel with pozzi (manholes) constructed at regular intervals. Although they were originally manufactured to make it possible to support the aqueduct, Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi began using the manholes to get water from the channel, commencing when he acquired the property in 1543. The cistern he had built to obtain rainwater wasn’t sufficient to meet his water needs.
Through an orifice to the aqueduct that ran under his property, he was able to meet his water desires.
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