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Architecture and Statecraft:

Charles of Bourbon's Naples, 17341759
  • ISBN-13: 9780271056395
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Robin L. Thomas
  • Price: AUD $204.00
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  • Local release date: 14/08/2013
  • Format: Hardback 248 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of architecture [AMX]
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Examines the crown-sponsored architecture and urbanism of Naples during the reign of King Charles of Bourbon (1734-59). Shows how structures and public spaces helped consolidate royal authority and refashion the city into a royal capital.



“Very much in the tradition of John H. Elliott and Jonathan Brown’s celebrated work A Palace for a King, Thomas combines art history with solid archival research to demonstrate how architecture served as a prominent tool of statecraft in the early modern period. As Thomas argues, eighteenth-century Naples became ‘the capital where Caroline architecture most effectively built the city as well as the state.’”

—Michael J. Levin, Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies

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