Jules hardouin mansart chateau de versailles
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Jules hardouin mansart chateau de versailles
Palace of Versailles, France (c)
Architecture Highlights
A court of 3, residents, including the king and queen, members of the royal family, government ministers, aristocrats, diplomats, civil servants and the like, required a suitably grand building, and no expense was spared.
Indeed, the new complex became the apogee of palace architecture. Surrounded by hectares of immaculate gardens, with beautiful vistas, fountains and statues, the palace contained several symmetrical suites of apartments for the public and private use of the king and queen, as well as numerous other architectural highlights.
These included The Hall of Mirrors () - the central gallery of the Palace - which comprised 17 mirror-clad arches reflecting the 17 windows.
A total of mirrors were used in its decoration. The ornamentations - the canvases along the ceiling that celebrate the apotheosis of the king, the polychrome marbles, the gilt bronzes -were organized by Le Brun, and in this undertaking he can