France
“Classical” Baroque
Louis XIV the Sun
King
HYACINTHE RIGAUD, Louis XIV, 1701. Oil on
canvas, approx. 9’ 2” x 6’ 3”. Louvre, Paris.
,Palace of Versailles, 700 rooms, 2,153 windows, 551,218 sq ft.,
radiating outward, the architectural embodiment of the Sun King
,Plan of the park, palace, and
town of Versailles, France,
(after a seventeenth-century
engraving by FRANÇOIS
BLONDEL).
, Spencer A. Rathus. All rights reserved.
“Classical” Baroque
Louis XIV the Sun
King
HYACINTHE RIGAUD, Louis XIV, 1701. Oil on
canvas, approx. 9’ 2” x 6’ 3”. Louvre, Paris.
,Palace of Versailles, 700 rooms, 2,153 windows, 551,218 sq ft.,
radiating outward, the architectural embodiment of the Sun King
,Plan of the park, palace, and
town of Versailles, France,
(after a seventeenth-century
engraving by FRANÇOIS
BLONDEL).
, Spencer A. Rathus. All rights reserved.