Architecture, Poetry, and Number in the Royal Palace at Caserta by Hersey, George L

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Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1983. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with light edgewear and a repaired chip out of the top of the spine. Completely clean inside and out. Major monograph on the history of the Royal Palace at Caserta, near Naples, Italy, begun in 1752. The most well known architects associated with Caserta are Mario Goffredo and Luigi Vanvitelli. Illustrated in black & white. Bibliography. 8" high X 11" wide, 318 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 1983. 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 under its roof, Caserta was designed to provide the royal family and the court with a grand residence and more. It was also intended to house the offices of the government bureaucracy, barracks, a national library, a university, and a national theater - not only to symbolize but to… Read More