Beyond the Eternal Waters
Welcome to Water That Speaks, a blog about various fountains found throughout Europe that have caught our eyes as observers. We are a group of young women studying abroad in Rome that have been awestruck by the beauty of the fountains in this city as well as other places we have visited during our time here. There are 4 authors of this blog. Nicole Haggard is a Business Management major at Azusa Pacific University. Destiny Softa is a Human Services major studying at Geneva College. Abbie Keeler is also a Human Services major at Geneva and Kari Stiansen is an Education major at Roberts Wesleyan College. Together we have discovered a common admiration for the artwork referred to by Robert Hughes as the “water that speaks”.
Rome alone has fifty monumental fountains and hundreds of smaller fountains, over 2000 fountains in all, more than any city in the world. Each fountain has a history of its own and a specific story to be told with it. In this particular blog we will select 15 fountains that could be located anywhere between Italy and Germany in order to explore and attempt to understand the intent that the artist had behind the flowing water. Artists try to communicate something through every piece of artwork they produce, and we are all very interested in what there is to be said through the beautiful fountains we have the opportunity to be able to see every day.
Rome alone has fifty monumental fountains and hundreds of smaller fountains, over 2000 fountains in all, more than any city in the world. Each fountain has a history of its own and a specific story to be told with it. In this particular blog we will select 15 fountains that could be located anywhere between Italy and Germany in order to explore and attempt to understand the intent that the artist had behind the flowing water. Artists try to communicate something through every piece of artwork they produce, and we are all very interested in what there is to be said through the beautiful fountains we have the opportunity to be able to see every day.