Luigi Vanvitelli (May 12, 1700, Naples – March 1, 1773, Caserta) was an Italian engineer and architect. Events 1191 - Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre. Naples ( Napoli, Neapolitan: Nàpule) is a historic City in southern Italy, the Capital of the Events 86 BC - Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army enters in Athens, removing the Tyrant Year 1773 ( MDCCLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Caserta is the capital of the Province of Caserta in the Campania region of Italy. The most prominent eighteenth-century architect of Italy, he practiced a sober classicizing academic Late Baroque style that made an easy transition to Neoclassicism. An academy ( Greek Ἀκαδημία is an institution of higher learning research or honorary membership Baroque art redirects here Please disambiguate such links to Baroque painting, Baroque sculpture, etc Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the decorative and
Biography
Vanvitelli was born at Naples, the son of a Dutch painter of land and cityscpapes (veduta), Caspar van Wittel, who also goes by the name Vanvitelli. A veduta ( Italian for "view" plural vedute) is a highly detailed usually large-scale Painting of a cityscape or some other Gaspar van Wittel (born Caspar Adriaensz van Wittel, later ak
He was trained in Rome by the architect Nicola Salvi, with whom he worked on construction of the Trevi Fountain. Nicola Salvi or Niccolò Salvi ( August 6, 1697 - February 8, 1751) was an Italian architect most famous for the Trevi The Trevi Fountain (Fontana di Trevi is the largest — standing 25 Following his notable successes in the competitions for the facade of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano (1732) and the facade of Palazzo Poli behind the Trevi Fountain, Pope Clement XII sent him to the Marche to buildsome papal projects. The Basilica of St John Lateran ( Italian: Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano) is the Cathedral of the church of Rome and the official The Palazzo Poli is a palace in Rome, Italy, forming the backdrop to the Trevi Fountain. The Trevi Fountain (Fontana di Trevi is the largest — standing 25 See Corsini for other uses of that name Pope Clement XII ( April 7, 1652 &ndash February 6, The Marche (plural originally from le marche de Ancona, referring to the March of Ancona) is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. 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 potentially reaching the town with the ships. Ancona (Ankon is a city and a seaport in the Marche, a region of central Italy, population 101909 (2005 Later it was used also as a military hospital or as barracks.
In Rome, Vanvitelli stabilized 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 (Basilica Sancti Petri officially known in Italian as the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano and commonly known as St
Beginning in 1742 Vanvitelli designed (along with Nicola Salvi) the Chapel of St. Nicola Salvi or Niccolò Salvi ( August 6, 1697 - February 8, 1751) was an Italian architect most famous for the Trevi John the Baptist for King John V of Portugal. Saint John the Baptist ( heb. Jochanan ben Sacharja, arab. يحيى Yaḥyā or يوحنا Yūḥanna, aram. Ancestry Marriages and descendants John married Mary Anne of Austria, daughter of Leopold I Holy Roman Emperor in 1708 It was built in Rome, disassembed in 1747, and shipped to Lisbon, where it was reassembled in the Church of St. Roch (Igreja de São Roque). The Igreja de São Roque (Church of Saint Roch) in Lisbon was the earliest Jesuit church in the Portuguese world and one of the first Jesuit churches It was completed in 1750, although the mosaics in it were not finished until 1752. Built of many precious marbles and other costly stones, as well as gilt bronze, it was held to be the most expensive chapel in Europe up to that time. [1]
Vanvitelli's technical and engineering capabilities, together with his sense of scenographic drama led Charles VII of Naples to commission the great Palace of Caserta, intended as a fresh start for administering the ungovernable Kingdom of Naples. Charles III ( January 20, 1716 – December 14, 1788) was King of Spain 1700–88 (as Carlos III King of Naples and The Palace of Caserta, in Italian Reggia di Caserta, is a former royal residence The Kingdom of Naples was an informal name of the Polity officially known as the Kingdom of Sicily which existed on the mainland of the southern Italian Vanvitelli worked on the project for the rest of his life, for Charles and for his successor Ferdinand IV. Ferdinand I ( Ferdinando Antonio Pasquale Giovanni Nepomuceno Serafino Gennaro Benedetto, January 12, 1751 &ndash January 4, 1825) 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. Benevento is a town and Comune of Campania, Italy, capital of the Province of Benevento, 50 km northeast of Naples.
Luigi Vanvitelli died at Caserta in 1773.
Notes
- ^ For a detailed study of this chapel, see Sousa Viterbo and R. Vincente d’Almeida, A Capella de S. João Baptista Erecta na Egreja de S. Roque. . . (Lisbon, 1900; reprinted 1902 and 1997); and more recently, Maria João Madeira Rodrigues, A Capela de S. João e as suas Colecções (Lisbon, 1988), translated as The Chapel of Saint John the Baptist and its Col[l]ections in São Roque Church, Lisbon (Lisbon, 1988).
External links
- [1] Riccardo Cigola, brief biography of Vanvitelli
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