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Design Statement for the Royal Palace of Caserta to their Holy Royal Majesties Carlo, King of the Two Sicilies and of Jerusalem. Infante of Spain, Duke of Parma and of Piacenza, Great Hereditary Prince of Tuscany and of Queen Maria Amalia of Saxony
Luigi Vanvitelli (1700–73) was an Italian architect and
engineer, the son of Flemish-born painter Caspar van Wittel. Vanvitelli trained
in Rome under the architect Niccolo Salvi, and
designed churches and other structures in Rome,
and in Ancona, in east-central Italy. He
received a commission in 1751 to build a new royal palace at Caserta,
just north of Naples for Charles VII, the Bourbon
king of Naples and Sicily. Construction of this magnificent
building began in 1752. It was one of the largest buildings erected in Europe in the 18th ...
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