A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . elnircli (if the samename. The was Louis Visconti; the fourstatues of Bossuet, F^nelon, , and Fl^chier are by different sculptors. Attention may be calledto the very unusual treatment of tin- |pilasters inconnection witli tlie diagonal ressauts. and theheavy ribs of the roof. FOUNTAIN tains -which depend fur their etiect entirely onthe overflow from an upper basin. Such a oneis tliat at the Trocadevo pahtce in Paris, wlierctlie sheet of water is given a jicculiarly beautifuleffect. It is
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . elnircli (if the samename. The was Louis Visconti; the fourstatues of Bossuet, F^nelon, , and Fl^chier are by different sculptors. Attention may be calledto the very unusual treatment of tin- |pilasters inconnection witli tlie diagonal ressauts. and theheavy ribs of the roof. FOUNTAIN tains -which depend fur their etiect entirely onthe overflow from an upper basin. Such a oneis tliat at the Trocadevo pahtce in Paris, wlierctlie sheet of water is given a jicculiarly beautifuleffect. It is to bo noted that extreme care isneedeil in tlie adjustment of such a basin tobring its edge to an horizontal plane, so FOUNTAIN OF BETHESDA primal motive of ikcoratiun being almust cistern or otiier water supply is completelyconcealed, jjerhajis from motives of precautionto guard its purity, and the water nms in from faucets. As a contrast to thesestructures is to be noted the great reliance placedupon the beauty of the moving \vat<r itself, and. FonNTAiN OF THE Gatteschi, Viterbo, (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, decoratedwith colonnades, arcades, niches, and cupolas,besides carving and painted tiles, but havingonly very small basins to receive the water; this81 also its sound, in nearly all the Europeanexani|)les. Some recent inventions have been emjiloyedto diversify fountains still more; thus in KewYork, jets have been introduced wiiich rise highand then subside to a lower elevation at verybrief intervals. (Cuts, cols. 83, 84, 86.) FOUNTAIN OF BETHESDA. At NewYork, in Central Purk, at the foot of the Ter-82
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