Architecture, Poetry, and Number in the Royal Palace at Caserta

Name: Architecture, Poetry, and Number in the Royal Palace at Caserta
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ISBN: 9780262081214

ISBN-10: 0262081210

ISBN-13: 9780262081214

Edition: 1983

Authors: George L. Hersey

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The great palace of Caserta, near Naples, probably the largest building erected in Europe in the eighteenth century, became an archetypal expression of absolute monarchy. It was begun in 1752 for Carlo di Borbone, King of the Two Sicilies, who worked closely with its chief architect, Luigi Vanvitelli. Although Vanvitelli was one of the most notable architects of his century, as Caserta was one of its major buildings, this study by a leading scholar of Baroque and Neapolitan architecture is the first book in English on the architect and his masterpiece. The book offers a new view of the palatial and megapalatial in architecture. Although the monarch for whom it was built never spent a night…

Book details

List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 5/20/1983
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.794