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
The Arco Clementino in Ancona
The Chapel of Saint John the Baptist in the Igreja de São Roque
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Garden Facade
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
Luigi Vanvitelli
…to Neoclassicism. Vanvitelli was born in Naples, the son of an Italian woman, Anna Lorenzani, and a Dutch painter of land and cityscapes (veduta), Caspar van Wittel, who also used the name Vanvitelli. Luigi began his career as a history painter, and from 1724, he was employed as a copyist in the fabbrica of St…
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