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Architecture, Poetry, and Number in the Royal Palace at Caserta - 1983 MIT hd dj
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- Subject Area
- Architecture
- Subject
- Regional, History / General
- ISBN
- 9780262081214
- Publication Name
- Architecture, Poetry, and Number in the Royal Palace at Caserta
- Item Length
- 10.7 in
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Publication Year
- 1983
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Width
- 8.3 in
- Item Weight
- 44.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 344 Pages
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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 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 contain the organs of a large modern state. Caserta influenced much that came after: plans by BoullÉe for a new Versailles to return pride of size to France, buildings in both Imperial and Soviet Russia, palaces of the later British Empire, even the Pentagon. As Hersey notes, "if Carlo di Borbone could return from the grave and rule the United States, he would move the seat of executive power from the White House to the Pentagon." The book also provides intriguing insights into the relationships between poetry - painted and sculptured allegories - and number - architectural planning that has become a geometrical game. It sketches the intellectual background of Carlo's conception, emphasizing the king's mythical forebears and his love of mathematical order. It shows that the Neapolitan poet and philosopher, Giambattista Vico, influenced the king to incorporate such mythic figures as Hercules and Aeneas into his genealogy and Vanvitelli to introduce their likenesses into Caserta's art, which is in turn integrated with the geometry of the palace's gardens and the numerical sequences of its rooms. George L. Hersey is Professor of Art History at Yale.
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MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262081210
ISBN-13
9780262081214
eBay Product ID (ePID)
104200
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Architecture, Poetry, and Number in the Royal Palace at Caserta
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Regional, History / General
Publication Year
1983
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Architecture
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10.7 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
8.3 in
Item Weight
44.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
82-020815
Lc Classification Number
Na7756.C3
Copyright Date
1983
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
728.8/2/0945725
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes
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