Design for an Altar
1700-1773
Before he became famous for the colossal Palace of Caserta, Luigi Vanvitelli was busy sketching up a storm, and this design shows his Baroque flair in full force. Look closely at the ghostly pencil lines underneath the bold ink—you're seeing the architect's brain at work, tweaking the curves of that massive, swirling bracket on the right. It's a study for an altar that captures the theatrical, over-the-top energy of 18th-century Italian religious design, freezing a moment of creative problem-solving on paper.
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