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100 1  Hersey, George L.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n82131864 
245 10 Architecture, poetry, and number in the royal palace at 
       Caserta /|cGeorge L. Hersey. 
264  1 Cambridge, Mass. :|bMIT Press,|c1983. 
264  4 |c©1983 
300    1 online resource (318 pages) :|billustrations (some 
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520    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 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 Boulle 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.
588    OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record. 
590    MIT Press Direct|bMIT Press Direct Open Access 
610 20 Reggia di Caserta.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n82085687 
610 27 Reggia di Caserta.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       569897 
650  0 Architecture, Baroque|zItaly|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh2009115392|zCaserta.|0https://
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       subjects/sh85131414|zItaly|zCaserta.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/n79111444-781 
650  7 Architecture, Baroque.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast
       /813624 
650  7 Symbolism in architecture.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/
       fast/1140770 
651  0 Caserta (Italy)|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n79111444|xBuildings, structures, etc.|0https://id.loc.gov
       /authorities/subjects/sh99004820 
651  7 Italy|zCaserta.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       1206468 
653    ARCHITECTURE/Architectural History/General 
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       1331.001.0001?locatt=mode:legacy|zOnline eBook. Open 
       Access via MIT Press Direct Open Access. 
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