“Our Garden of Delights, with its fountains and groves, is going to be slightly larger.”
In his correspondence, Luigi Vanvitelli affirms it: in the long term, his work will be more spacious than Versailles.
And even?
More majestic?
More radiant?
More beautiful?
This goes without saying for this architect, an Italianized Dutchman who, in the middle of the 18th century, was one of the most prestigious in Europe.
In 1752, he was retained by Charles de Bourbon to create in Caserta, twenty kilometers from Naples (like Versailles in Paris), a palace which would establish absolutism in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Two years later, Vanvitelli, also a scenographer and landscape designer, drew up the plans and is already supervising a site that is progressing rapidly.
It is certain: this palace will be a suitable setting, as imposing as it is rational.
Where one will be neither too close nor too far from Vesuvius and the sea with its threatening English ships.
Where the court as the administration will soon move in full.
Here, we will have all the comfort…
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