Bring home the Trevi Fountain
The Trevi Fountain is the most important Baroque fountain inside the metropolis of Rome. In a metropolis brimming with architectural wonders, the Trevi Fountain stands proud.
As massive as the fountain is, the piazza in which it is positioned is highly small. So small that it is nearly impossible to picture the complete fountain with out a brilliant huge perspective lens. My everyday wide angle should best capture this tons of it as I became standing in the front of it.
This shot is from Wikimedia Commons and it's been electronically manipulated to remove the distortion. It's the clearest shot of the fountain I've ever seen.
Though you may definitely see the entirety, photographing it's miles some other rely all together. It's 85 ft excessive and sixty five ft wide and by means of any degree, that is a big fountain.
Like everything in Rome, the Trevi Fountain has a story behind it that weaves together threads of Ancient Roman history, the Papacy and Roman identity. There's absolutely nothing subtle about the fountain itself or the story of how it came to be.
In 19 B.C., Roman engineers finished the Aqua Virgo, one of the aqueducts that made life in Ancient Rome possible. The Aqua Virgo terminated where the Trevi Fountain stands now and it supplied Rome with fresh water for 400 years. During the sieges of the Goths in the 500s, the Goths drove Rome to its knees and delivered a death blow when they broke all of the aqueducts in Rome.
Fast ahead to the 1450s when Pope Nicholas V repaired the Aqua Virgo (now called the Acqua Vergine) and commissioned a fountain. The unique fountain become a quite primary affair, little greater than a basin that amassed the water from the aqueduct.
In 1629, Pope Urban VIII found the fountain to be too plain and commissioned no less than Gian Lorenzo Bernini to attract up a brand new fountain. The pope died earlier than production could start and the mission died with Pope Urban VIII.
In 1730, Pope Clement XII held a contest to peer who could design a fountain grand enough to mark the triumph of the repaired aqueduct. Clement XII was a Florentine and he chose the Florentine architect Alessandro Galilei's layout over the Roman architect Nicola Salvi. The outcry from the streets of Rome turned into as immediately because it became excessive. No Florentine become going to construct something in Rome in the 1700s, thanks very a great deal. Bowing to public strain, Clement XII awarded the commission to Salvi and the fountain you may see today appears precisely find it irresistible did while Salvi designed it.
Knock offs of it at Epcot Center and Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas do it a ideal disservice. The unique is an excellent pile of travertine, one well really worth the effort it takes to face in the front of. When I heard that Top Knobs had launched a new series of cupboard knobs and pulls that paid homage to the Trevi Fountain I turned into suspicious.
Once I noticed them I dropped my suspicions without delay.
Top Knobs Passport series manages to invoke the details of the fountain without going overboard. As soon as I saw that cup pull I went back through my photos of the Trevi Fountain and found this detail shot I took in Rome.
Nice job Top Knobs.
The Trevi Fountain-inspired hardware is but a part of the entire Passport series from Top Knobs. Other collections in the Passport series pay tribute to such iconic locations the Great Wall of China, the Sydney Opera House, the Tower Bridge in London, the ancient temple complex at Luxor and Victoria Falls. I haven't seen any of the rest of collections, but they'll be debuting at KBIS in a few weeks. You can find the rest of Top Knobs' extensive offerings on their website .