World Heritage: Monumental SitesThis second volume, dedicated specifically to monumental sites, focuses on forty-seven emblematic instances of diverse geographic, cultural, and historic sites, providing each with a clear, well-documented explanatory text, enriched with in-depth boxes and a beautiful selection of pictures with detailed captions. This volume is a fabulous guide through wonderful sites such as the Palace and Gardens of Schonbrunn, the Palace and Gardens of Versailles, Mount Athos, The Kremlin of Moscow, the Great Wall of China, the Potala Palace in Lhasa, the Forbidden City in Beijing, The Taj Mahal, the Royal Palaces of Abomey, the Pueblo of Taos and the Statue of Liberty in New York among many others. |
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... Luigi Vanvitelli as a celebration of royal power . The Palace and the park of Caserta View of the waterway , or via d'acqua , of the Palace of Caserta . Detail of one of the marine deities in the Fontana di Eolo . T The massive ...
... Luigi Vanvitelli as a celebration of royal power . The Palace and the park of Caserta View of the waterway , or via d'acqua , of the Palace of Caserta . Detail of one of the marine deities in the Fontana di Eolo . T The massive ...
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... Luigi Vanvitelli designed the immense park behind the palace , built after his death . by his son Carlo , according to Vanvitelli's sketches and landscape descriptions , laying out broad and sweeping views and perspecti- val vanishing ...
... Luigi Vanvitelli designed the immense park behind the palace , built after his death . by his son Carlo , according to Vanvitelli's sketches and landscape descriptions , laying out broad and sweeping views and perspecti- val vanishing ...
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... LUIGI VANVITELLI The architect Luigi Vanvitelli was born on 12 May 1700 in Naples , where his father , the great Dutch landscape painter Gaspard van Wittel , had moved in 1699 to decorate the apartments of the palace of the viceroy Luigi ...
... LUIGI VANVITELLI The architect Luigi Vanvitelli was born on 12 May 1700 in Naples , where his father , the great Dutch landscape painter Gaspard van Wittel , had moved in 1699 to decorate the apartments of the palace of the viceroy Luigi ...
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The Palace and Gardens Roberta DAdda | 4 |
Roberta DAdda | 27 |
Cecilia Gibellini | 130 |
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