The Italian translation of the volume devoted to Neapolitan Baroque by the eminent British art historian Anthony Blunt.
The Italian version of the first edition of this volume published thirty years ago, contains illustrations and a bibliography that have been updated and rendered more complete while remaining faithful to Blunt’s original project. The volume presents a masterly synthesis – yet to be equalled – of the main characteristics of fifteenth-century Neapolitan architecture up to the work of outstanding masters like Ferdinando Fuga (1699) and Luigi Vanvitelli (1700-1773), devoting considerable space and attention to the documentation of individual buildings. The wealth of illustrations consisting of technical drawings and auteur photographs, conjure up all the richness of Neapolitan Baroque and Rococo architecture, which is recounted through religious and civic projects, from Porta Capuana to Palazzo Cuomo, Palazzo di Donn’Anna, Palazzo Reale, the churches of San Domenico Maggiore, San Giovanni a Carbonara and Santa Maria delle Grazie, the Charterhouse of San Martino, and through the development of new twentieth-century artistic currents.