A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . 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 r
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . 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. FOUNTAIN AT NUREMBERG, CALLED SCHONE BRUNNEN, 84 FOUNTAIN OP race. The subject is The Augel troubling theWaters. FOUNTAIN OF CUVIER. At Paris,near the JanUn Ilmdes ; built in thereign of Louis Philippe on the site of an earlierone. FOUNTAIN OF GRENELLB. At Paris,in the .southwest, (ju the Rue de Grenelle. De-signed by Bouchardon in the reign of Louis fountain has an interesting architecturaldisposition, emblematic of the city of Paris, andthe rivers Seine and JLarne, with statues of thefour Seasons in niches, and symbolical bas-reliefs. FOUNTAIN OF LOUVOIS. At Paris,in the Place Louvuis o])pi>site the NationalLibrary. It is a very graceful design of Vis-conti, with sculpture by Klagmann, which,though it has been carried out in east ironcoated with bronze, is effective as seen throughthe veil of constantly falling water. FOUNTAIN OF MOLIERE. At Paris,near the great National Library, Rue Richelieu;a wall foiuitain with a seated figure of Molifereby B. G. Se
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