Trinita Dei Monti Fountain, Rome, Italy
Trinita Dei Monti Fountain - 1587
The Cannonball Fountain in viale della Trinità dei Monti is as pleasing as it is simple. This simple garden fountain consists of an ancient basin of red granite, about 13 feet across, resting on a large octagonal baluster emerging from an octagonal pool at ground level. Very little is known about this outdoor garden water fountain apart from that it is popular consensus that it was built by Annibale Lippi for Cardinal Ferdinando Medici in 1589 and is located on the terrace in front of the Villa Medici. The Cardinal spent a great deal of time and money decorating the villa and it is highly likely that it was built during his tenure of the property because the newly constructed "Aqua Felice" made it possible for water to be supplied to the hillside.
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It has been termed the "The Fountain of the Brimming Bowl" as it is nothing more or less than a huge bowl filled to overflowing with the Acqua Felice. The stream gushes upward in a slender column until it reaches the spreading branches overhead. There it returns upon itself in clouds of glistening spray, filling the bowl with circles of gleaming water, ever widening until they brim over the edge and veil the marble in a continuous overflow. The octagonal basin which receives this copious stream is sunk into the ground and its shadowed waters have all the unobtrusive beauty of a quiet and sequestered pool. Although it's the simplest of landscaping water features, the fountain designer has made his appeal to the eye through fundamental and universal elements of beauty and decorative water display.
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