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Palazzo Reale, 1600 by Fontana - Naples
- -exiled from Rome, so he came to Naples
- -monotonous building in the Baroque
- -royal palace
- -intended to host Spanish king
- -impressive engineering
- -faces the sea (Naples = on the ocean)
- -known for its harbour during the Baroque
- -material is darker, Tufo stone, red not the white we see in Rome
- -doesn't agree well with carving and facade of architecture
- -ceremonial staircase
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Monumental Staircase at Palazzo Reale, 1600 by Fontana - Naples
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S. Martino Cloister, 1623 by Cosimo Fanzago - Naples
- -principal architect of religious buildings in and around Naples
- -charterhouse monestary
- -above city looking down into the bay of Naples
- -design fuses art and architecture on a *grand scale*
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Palazzo Serra di Cassano, 1750 by Ferdinando Sanfelice - Naples
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Palazzo Reale di Caserta,1752 by Luigi Vanvitelli - Naples
- -royal summer palace
- - if Naples is the "Paris of the South" this is Versailles
- -Bourbon family (Charles III of Naples)
- -architect won the biggest commission of the 18th century
- -social and political model from Versailles
- -Is it still baroque? (completed after the end of the period)
- -probably is, due to grandeur and enormity
- -largest palace in italy
- -vestibule inspired by Santa Maria della Salute
- -imperial staircase:
- -characterized by a series of staircases
- -reaches the Piano Nobile
- -enormous carved lions at the base of first flight
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Palazzo Reale di Caserta,1752 by Luigi Vanvitelli - Naples
- -incredibly large, 45min to walk
- -filled with illusions to the virtue of the family
- -large aqueduct (aqueduct Carlino)
- -built to bring water to the gardens
- -confirms his engineering abilities
- -considered to be a great wonder in the 18th century
- -open to public
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-stacking: the way baroque architects are pushing one thing inside another
inside another, making them smaller as they go to create movement
-ex: multiple pediments = structurally unnecessary
-composition has an elasticity
-incorporates the use of curves- an important quality of this period, not found as
much in the mannerist period and other earlier periods
-curves create gestures of welcome, totally counter reformation
-symbolism reveals patronage
-magnificent stone portico which bulges forward
-shifting planes of the façade that suggest a doughy texture
-allusion creates a sense of the building being deeper and richer than it actually is
-spatial layering and chiaroscuro lighting effects
-nesting instinct (one thing packed inside another)
-quality of exuberance in it that we don’t quite find in the north
-facade casting shadows
-scenography
-Gesamtkunstwerk
-site: relationship between the building and its surroundings
-CR: drawing people in, pilgrims, bowling them over
-brilliant white Travertine of Rome
-darker stone in the North
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