The Original Garden Fountain Designers

Multi-talented people, fountain artists from the 16th to the late 18th century often functioned as architects, sculptors, artists, engineers and cultivated scholars all in one person. Leonardo da Vinci as a imaginative master, inventor and scientific virtuoso exemplified this Renaissance master. He methodically recorded his experiences in his now recognized notebooks, after his mind boggling interest in the forces of nature led him to investigate the properties and motion of water. Ingenious water exhibits loaded with symbolic meaning and all-natural charm converted private villa settings when early Italian water feature designers paired imagination with hydraulic and gardening skill. Known for his incredible skill in archeology, design and garden creations, Pirro Ligorio, the humanist, offered the vision behind the magnificence in Tivoli. For the many mansions near Florence, other fountain engineers were well versed in humanistic subject areas as well as classical scientific texts, masterminding indoor waterfalls the excellent water marbles, water highlights and water jokes.