A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 63
effect. It is to bo noted that extreme care isneedeil in tlie adjustment of such a basin tobring its edge to an e.xact horizontal plane, so FOUNTAIN OF BETHESDA primal motive of ikcoratiun being almust ignoreil.The cistern or otiier water supply is completelyconcealed, jjerhajis from motives of… … FonNTAiN OF THE Gatteschi, Viterbo, Itat.y. (See Plan. as to allow a thin sheet of water to overflowuniformly at all points. The fountains of Constantinople and otherMohammedan cities are of a peculiar kind inthat tliey consist each of a small closed building,jiolygonal or rectangular, iirnamental,…
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![An illustration from Architectura curiosa nova, exponens 1. Fundamenta hydragogica, indolemq[ue] aquæ, aëris interventu in altum levandæ. 2. Varios aquarum ac salientium fontium lusus per varia spectatu jucunda epistomiorum seu siphonum genera. 3. Magnum amnissimorum fontium, machinarumq[ue] aquæductoriarum sumtu magno exstructarum, ac per Italiam, Britanniam, Germaniam &c. visendarum, numerum. 4. Specus artificiales sumtuosissimas, cum plerisq[ue] principum europæorum palatiis, hortis, aulis; nec non præcipuis monasteriis atq[ue] arcibus. 5. Cum auctario figurarum elegantissimarum, ad hortorum topiaria vario ductù dividenda, nec non conclavium laquearibus ac pavimentis segmentandis, itemq[ue] labyrinthis construendis, adhibendarum. Omnia 200 æri incisis... descripta (1664)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-architecturacuri00bock-392-219.webp)
