Luigi Vanvitelli in a portrait by Giacinto Diano (1765)
Born
(1700-05-12)12 May 1700
Naples, Kingdom of Naples
Died
1 March 1773(1773-03-01) (aged 72)
Caserta, Kingdom of Naples
Nationality
Italian
Known for
Architecture, painting
Notable work
Palace of Caserta and Royal Palace of Naples
Movement
Baroque and Neoclassicism
Luigi Vanvitelli (Italian pronunciation:[luˈiːdʒivaɱviˈtɛlli]; 12 May 1700 – 1 March 1773), known in Dutch as Lodewijk van Wittel (IPA:[ˈloːdəʋɛikfɑɱˈʋɪtəl]),[a] was an Italian architect and painter. The most prominent 18th-century architect of Italy, he practised a sober classicising academic Late Baroque style that made an easy transition to Neoclassicism.
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LuigiVanvitelli (Italian pronunciation: [luˈiːdʒi vaɱviˈtɛlli]; 12 May 1700 – 1 March 1773), known in Dutch as Lodewijk van Wittel (IPA: [ˈloːdəʋɛik fɑɱ...
of Baroque vedute LuigiVanvitelli, prominent 18th-century Baroque and Neoclassical architect of Rome and Naples Piazza Vanvitelli, a public square in...
by Charles of Bourbon, the aqueduct was designed by and named after LuigiVanvitelli. Construction began in March 1753 and it opened on 7 May 1762. It is...
of Spain), who worked closely with his architect, LuigiVanvitelli. When Charles saw Vanvitelli's grandly scaled model for Caserta, it filled him with...
however was chosen instead of plans by Ferdinando Fuga and his friend LuigiVanvitelli. Salvi did not live to see the fountain completed in 1762 by his friend...
"Università degli studi della Campania LuigiVanvitelli". Università degli studi della Campania LuigiVanvitelli (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-04-23. "Università...
century renovated by LuigiVanvitelli as provisional residence for the royal court The cathedral (1800s) The Aqueduct of Vanvitelli (eighteenth century)...
university in Naples, until the establishment of the University of Campania LuigiVanvitelli in 1991, formerly Seconda Università di Napoli. The motto of the University...
relations at LUISS Guido Carli, Università degli Studi della Campania LuigiVanvitelli (2006–2014), and University of Rome Tor Vergata. Rosario Aitala elected...
set up; he also erected a Lazaretto at the south end of the harbour, LuigiVanvitelli being the architect-in-chief. The southern quay was built in 1880,...
(Università degli Studi della Campania LuigiVanvitelli) Caserta (Università degli Studi della Campania LuigiVanvitelli Faculty of Health Sciences) Fisciano...
hours for a small euro fee paid to the Benedictine nuns of the church. LuigiVanvitelli also did a altarpiece, Apparition of the Angel to St. Cecili, and a...
Salvi and LuigiVanvitelli, to design a large palace that was to be 'more complex and with greater baroque style than the box of a palace Vanvitelli designed...
the Palazzina di caccia of Stupinigi, dating to the 18th century. LuigiVanvitelli, in 1752, began the construction of the Royal Palace of Caserta. In...
his pupil, Jacopo Del Duca. Some later construction was directed by LuigiVanvitelli in 1749. In 1911, the Vanvitellian façade on Piazza Esedra was demolished...
important cultural sites of the European continent. Italian architect LuigiVanvitelli son of Dutch architect Caspar van Wittel built the Royal Palace in...
Mihály Pollack, Hungarian Neoclassical architect (died 1855) March 1 – LuigiVanvitelli, Italian engineer and architect (born 1700) Dinis, António (2001),...
Nicola Salvi in 1731. He hired the architect, LuigiVanvitelli. As a setting for the fountain, Vanvitelli gave the building a new monumental façade that...
or 13th century, a ciborium (an altar canopy) designed by architect LuigiVanvitelli, and a statue of the Madonna della Neve ("Madonna of the Snow", 1512)...
lions in Veronese red marble, while the rear ones, added later by LuigiVanvitelli, are on a simple pedestal. Under the arches are four reliefs depicting...
designs were provided by, among others, Filippo Juvarra (1733) and LuigiVanvitelli (1745), but all remained unapplied. In 1682 the façade of Santa Maria...
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