Luigi Vanvitelli (Naples, May 12, 1700 – March 1, 1773, Caserta), an engineer as well as the most prominent 18th-century Italian architect, practiced a sober classicizing academic Late Baroque style that made an easy transition to Neoclassicism. Location within Italy Naples (Italian Napoli, Neapolitan Napule, from Greek Νέα Πόλις - Néa Pólis - meaning New City; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is the largest city in southern Italy and capital of Campania Region. ... May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (133rd in leap years). ... Events January 1 - Russia accepts Julian calendar. ... March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... 1773 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Caserta, near Naples was certainly the largest palace and probably the largest building erected in Europe in the 18th century. ... An academy is an institution for the study of higher learning. ... Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint In arts, the Baroque (or baroque) is both a period and the style that dominated it. ... Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture. ...

He was the son of a Flemish painter, Caspar van Wittel, trained in Rome by the architect Niccolo Salvi, with whom he worked on realizing the Trevi Fountain. Following his notable successes in the competitions for the facade of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano (1732) and the facade behind the Trevi Fountain, Pope Clement XII sent him to the Marche to realize some papal projects. At Ancona in 1732, he devised the vast Lazzaretto, a pentagonal building covering more than 20,000 square meters, built to protect the military defensive authorities from the risk of contagious diseases eventually reaching the town with the ships. Later it was used also as a military hospital or as barracks. The Castel SantAngelo from the South by Caspar van Wittel, from the 1690s Caspar Andriaans van Wittel (b. ... The Trevi Fountain (in Italian, Fontana di Trevi) is the largest and most ambitious of the Baroque fountains of Rome. ... The late Baroque façade of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano was completed by Alessandro Galilei in 1735 after winning a competition for the design. ... The Trevi Fountain (in Italian, Fontana di Trevi) is the largest and most ambitious of the Baroque fountains of Rome. ... Clement XII, born as Lorenzo Corsini (Florence, April 7, 1652 – Rome, February 6, 1740), (pope 1730-1740), had been an aristocratic lawyer and financial manager under preceding pontiffs. ... This article refers to the Italian region. ... Ancona is a city and a seaport in the Marche, a region of northeastern Italy, population 100,507 (2001). ...

In Rome, Vanvitelli knew how to stabilize the dome of St. Peter's Basilica when it developed cracks and found time to paint frescos in a chapel at Sant Cecilia in Trastevere. The Basilica of Saint Peter from Castel SantAngelo. ...

His technical and engineering capabilities, together with Vanvitelli's sense of scenographic drama induced Charles VII of Naples to commission the great project of his palace at Caserta, intended as a fresh start for administering ungovernable Kingdom of Naples. Vanvitelli worked on the project for the rest of his life, for Charles and for his successor Ferdinand IV. In Naples he designed the city's Palazzo Reale (1753) and some aristocratic palaces, and churches. His engineering talents were exercised as well: for Caserta he devised the great aqueduct system that brought water to run the cascades and fountains. He built a bridge over the Calore in Benevento. Charles III of Spain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Caserta, near Naples was certainly the largest palace and probably the largest building erected in Europe in the 18th century. ... The following is a list of monarchs of Naples and Sicily: See also: List of Counts of Apulia and Calabria Hauteville Counts of Sicily, 1071-1130 Roger I 1071-1101 Simon 1101-1105 Roger II 1105-1130 Hauteville Kings of Sicily, 1130-1198 Roger II 1130-1154 William I 1154... King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (January 12, 1751 - January 4, 1825). ... Benevento is a town and archiepiscopal see of Campania, Italy, capital of the province of Benevento, 32 miles northeast of Naples. ...

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• [1] Riccardo Cigola, brief biography of Vanvitelli