Caspar van Wittel
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Caspar van Wittel or Gaspar van Wittel, known in Italian as Gaspare Vanvitelli or Gasparo degli Occhiali, was a Dutch painter and draughtsman who had a long career in Rome, Papal States. He played a p
Portrait of van Wittel by his son Luigi
Piazza Navona, Rome
View of the Tiber in Rome
View of the Piazzetta from St Mark's Basin
Luigi Vanvitelli
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Luigi Vanvitelli, 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 t
Caspar van Wittel
…who would become one of the leading vedute painters in the first half of the 18th century. In 1697 van Wittel married Anna Lorenzani. His first son Luigi was born in 1700. Luigi became a famous architect and used the italianized family name of Vanvitelli. A second son was born in 1702. Van Wittel spent…
The Arco Clementino in Ancona
The Chapel of Saint John the Baptist in the Igreja de São Roque
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Garden Facade