QUEENS OF DIPLOMACY AND CULTURE The Royal Palace of Caserta, a colossal Baroque complex that Maria Carolina father-in-law, the future Charles III of Spain, commissioned in 1752 as his ambitious answer to Versailles. (Cypress trees in the English Garden, which Queen Maria Carolina commissioned to directly rival her sister Marie Antoinette’s new grounds at Petit Trianon.) During his travels through Italy in 1786, Goethe remarked that the Reggia Di Caserta “is in perfect harmony with a region that is itself a garden.” Built by the Bourbon kings of Naples, the royal complex rivals that other Bourbon phenom. Tour Italy’s Best-Kept-Secret: A Palace That Rivals Versailles | Frederic Magazine
No comments:
Post a Comment