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Producing pleasantness: the waterworks of Isaac de Caus, outlandish engineer

Producing pleasantness: the waterworks of Isaac de Caus, outlandish engineer paige johnson As early as the fourteenth century, Piero de Cescenzi praised garden fountains less as a gardener or an architect than as one who created and operated engines, in his Ruralium commodorum liber, recommending them for the herb garden defined by his brother and mentor Salomon as ‘an assemblage … having force where ‘if possible, a running fountain should issue in the middle, pure and and movement’. His machines didn’t grind grain, pound ore, or weave cloth, beautiful, because it produces much pleasantness’. they raised the shimmering energy of water into the ‘fair spouts’ of weeping statues and singing nightingales, moving automata and rainbow fountains. The The word ‘running’ is important. Francis Bacon would later complain that ‘Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of flies and frogs’, product he manufactured was pleasantness. but as for fountains, ‘they are a great beauty and refreshment’. His words of 1625 are a reminder that garden waterworks required not just the pleasing The fountain and the mill arrangement of design motifs, but also the application of what we would now call hydraulic technology: In the story of the controlled use of water in the landscape it is the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes Taylor & Francis

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paige johnson As early as the fourteenth century, Piero de Cescenzi praised garden fountains less as a gardener or an architect than as one who created and operated engines, in his Ruralium commodorum liber, recommending them for the herb garden defined by his brother and mentor Salomon as ‘an assemblage … having force where ‘if possible, a running fountain should issue in the middle, pure and and movement’. His machines didn’t grind grain, pound ore, or weave cloth, beautiful, because it produces much pleasantness’. they raised the shimmering energy of water into the ‘fair spouts’ of weeping statues and singing nightingales, moving automata and rainbow fountains. The The word ‘running’ is important. Francis Bacon would later complain that ‘Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of flies and frogs’, product he manufactured was pleasantness. but as for fountains, ‘they are a great beauty and refreshment’. His words of 1625 are a reminder that garden waterworks required not just the pleasing The fountain and the mill arrangement of design motifs, but also the application of what we would now call hydraulic technology: In the story of the controlled use of water in the landscape it is the

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Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes – Taylor & Francis

Published: Sep 1, 2009

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