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The shape

of

emotions

Water has been an important and symbolic pretty much used to seeing lakes, small rivers,

value both in the ancient and more recent sources. European Renaissance had just been

history, as related to the spirituality and puri- a very important time for fountains, as they

fication ideas.
were turned to a complex architectural part

of a wider development and combination of

Fountains are unreplaceable symbols and ele- iconographic shapes, such as Gods and angels’

ments in the Heaven’s depictions and yet in statues from whom water was made gush.

the gardens’ architecture, even if we can ap-

preciate some outstanding differences when The gravity had been the hydraulic force ma-

it comes to culture. Persian history and cul- king the water flow in a fountain for all the

ture outlines the water as a standalone ele- ancient times. A big pond storing the water

ment, whereas Japanese and Chinese tradi- at the highest point had been the hydraulics’

tion wants the water to flow and gush with basics for a very long while. Water push by

no addition of mechanical aids – they were
gravity force could fall and gush out of the

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