Luigi Vanvitelli
Luigi Vanvitelli (born May 12, 1700 in Naples , † March 1, 1773 in Caserta ) was an Italian architect.
Life
Vanvitelli came from a family of artists from Amersfoort in the Netherlands . The original family name van Wittel was Italianized to Vanvitelli. His father Gaspar van Wittel emigrated to Rome in 1674 and worked there as a painter until 1736. In the 1730s he also worked in Ancona , where he worked at the Lazzaretto ( hospital , Laemocomium or Mole Vanvitelliana), the Arch of Trajan , the Chiesa del Gesù and the Cathedral of San Ciriaco .
Following in his father's footsteps, Vanvitelli began his career as a fresco painter , then switched to architecture and eventually became one of the most important Italian architects of the period between Baroque and Classicism . He was a student of Filippo Juvarra and studied the writings of Vitruvius and the buildings from classical antiquity . Vanvitelli's son Carlo (1739-1821) continued his father's work at the Royal Palace of Caserta.
Works
His most important work is the Palace of Caserta . Other noteworthy buildings are:
- the Vanvitelli aqueduct in Valle di Maddaloni (1753–1762)
- the Ponte Vanvitelli bridge in Benevento (restoration of the bridge over the Calore Irpino )
- the Lazzaretto of Ancona
- the facade of the Palazzo Odescalchi in Rome
- Santa Maria degli Angeli in the ancient Baths of Diocletian , (from 1750 changes to Michelangelo's concept )
- the Chiesa dell'Annunziata in Naples
- the church of Sant'Agostino in Siena (plan extension by the architects Giuseppe and Sebastiano di Giorgio Minacci, 1747–1755)
- in the church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere , Rome (frescoes)
- in the church Chiesa del Suffragio, Viterbo (frescoes)
literature
- Fabrizio Di Marco: Vanvitelli, Luigi. L'architetto della Reggia di Caserta. In: Enciclopedia dei ragazzi (2006)
Web links
- Literature by and about Luigi Vanvitelli in the catalog of the German National Library
- Vanvitèlli, Luigi at Enciclopedie on line treccani.it
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Little Encyclopedia . Volume 2. Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich 1950, p. 825.
- ↑ a b c Enciclopedie on line
- ↑ Peter Anselm Riedl , Max Seidel (ed.): The churches of Siena. Volume 1.1 (Abbadia all'Arco – S. Biagio), Bruckmann Verlag , Munich 1985, ISBN 3-7654-1941-9
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vanvitelli, Luigi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wittell Luigi van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1700 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Naples |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1773 |
| Place of death | Caserta |