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Teatro di Corte

Luigi Vanvitelli

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Important events

(detail)1769 | construction
Built in 1752-1769 to the design by Luigi Vanvitelli (1700-1773)
(detail)1772 | alteration
Reconstruction in 1772: Breach in the wall to the garden to support the fire of Carthage in Paisellos Didone abbadonata from there,
(detail)1824 | alteration
Redecoration of the auditorium.
(detail)1989 | Restauration
Stage: Original machinery above and below the stage, decorations from 1809.

People

Luigi Vanvitelli |main architect

History

Vanvitelli's theatre in the Neapolitan royal palace at Caserta (1752-59) marks the beginning of a long-lived fashion—the semi-circle of giant columns uniting several tiers of boxes. In this case they are genuine Roman columns of giallo antico from a temple at nearby Pozzuoli. Here, on a relatively small scale, Vanvitelli showed how use of classical orders could be used with a new grandeur. The lowest level of boxes is treated as a series of pedestals, on which stand giant Corinthian column embracing three more rows of boxes. The theatre has that odd feeling o frigidity which often affects Italian Neoclassicism, but it was a brilliant ide; handled with undeniable confidence.

 

 

 

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