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Fountains have been a part of city life for over two thousand years. Find out their role through the ages, who built them and for what purposes.
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Fountains | An overview of fountain history, describing various types, styles and uses of fountains. Explores how the development of water systems technology through the ages has affected fountain design. Waterlands The Art and Science of Water | A look at Islamic water technology from the 9th to the 16th centurries. Saudi Aramco World Giochi d'Acqua | A brief history of water jokes and water-powered automata in ancient times through to the Renaissance. Suite 101 Gardens of Nudes, Part Four | A brief discussion of grottos in Renaissance formal gardens. Suite 101 Vintage Mall Fountains | A photographic look at mall fountains in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Malls of America The Formal Water Garden | A short history of stepped cascades, fountains and water staircases. Hubert Chanson Fountains: Ornamentenal Structures with Jets, Spouts and Basins of Water | A whimsical cartoon description of different types of fountains. Rudiments of Wisdom Encyclopaedia
fountains at exhibitions 1893 Columbian Exhibition, Chicago | Paul V. Galvin Library 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis | St. Louis Public Library 1915 Panama-Pacific Exhibition, San Francisco | The Jewel City |
fountain sculptors
Gian Lorenzo Bernini | The seventeenth-century grand master who designed several of Rome's most famous fountains, such as The Triton Fountain and The Fountain of the Four Rivers. Web Gallery of Art Carl Milles | Early twentieth-century Swedish sculptor who made his mark in the United States with fountain designs such as the Meeting of the Waters in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Wickipedia George Tsutakawa | Japanese American sculptor who designed over 70 fountains, mostly in the US Northwest, in a characteristic metal flower style, such as the Naramore Fountain in Seattle, Washington, USA. HistoryLink Isamu Noguchi | Prolific American sculptor versed in a variety of media who was known for creating the Dodge Fountain in Detroit, Michigan and the Sunken Garden at the Chase Manhatten Bank Plaza in New York. Noguchi Museum
drinking fountains The Wallace Fountains | Background on the drinking fountains built in Paris by William Wallace. Wikipedia The Benson Bubblers | Description of drinking fountains installed in Portland which still provide refreshment today. Portland Water Bureau Drinking Places | Discusses early drinking fountains, cast iron canopied fountains, bubblers, and fountains for animals. City of Sydney Water, water everywhere | Victorian drinking fountains that live on as ornaments in London are being restored by the London Parks and Gardens Trust. Hazelle Jackson |
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