Chateau De Versailles
by Iryna Goodall
Title
Chateau De Versailles
Artist
Iryna Goodall
Medium
Photograph
Description
The garden façade with the royal apartments and the Gallery of Mirrors between them of the Chateau, or the Palace, of Versailles in France.
Louis XIV (1638-1715), known as the Sun King, was the one who turned what had once been a small royal hunting lodge and private retreat for Louis XIII into the most extravagant court that Europe had ever known. Entrusting Europe’s master architects, designers and craftsmen he spent a fortune on Versailles and its more than 2 000 rooms, elaborate gardens, fountains, private zoo, roman style baths and novel elevators.
In 1789, the French Revolution forced Louis XVI to leave Versailles for Paris. The Palace would never again be a royal residence and a new role was assigned to it in the 19th century, when it became the Museum of the History of France in 1837 by order of King Louis-Philippe, who came to the throne in 1830. The rooms of the Palace were then devoted to housing new collections of paintings and sculptures representing great figures and important events that had marked the history of France.
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