Video on the history of Versailles

The Last Half of the Baroque French Art 1700 - c1790 The French Baroque and The Enlightenment

 

The Last Half of the Baroque
French Art 1700 - c1790
The French Baroque and The Enlightenment

Rene Descartes 1596
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his "Social Contract"
Benjamin Franklin 1770's
Thomas Jefferson
Sir Isaac Newton 1642-1726
Denis Diderot 1713-1784
Adam Smith
David Hume
Madame de Stael
Madame Marie-Therese Rodet Geoffrine
Madame Pompadour
Catherine the Great
Vivaldi
 

(left) VELASQUEZ 1599-1660  Pope Innocent X (the Tenth) 1650 oil on canvas Spanish, Baroque  'troppo vero' (right) Hyacinthe Rigaud  Portrait of Louis XIV (14th)  1701Oil on canvas 9'2''x7'' Located in Louvre, Paris

Hyacinthe Rigaud  Portrait of Louis XIV (14th)  1701Oil on canvas 9'2''x7'' Located in Louvre, Paris

Versailles is outside of Paris

1631 Philibert Le Roy: Started Remodelling  Palace of Versailles 1668-1685 Louis Le Vau: Decorated Facade Charles Lebrun: Architect/Decorator Coordinated all the decorations Andre Le Nôtre: Gardens Jules Hardouin Mansart: Architect Nicolas Fouquet: Treasurer

mansard roof
 

The palace itself is over a quarter of a mile long
 
 

parterre -- a level and patterned garden

Hyacinthe Rigaud  Portrait of Louis XIV (14th)  1701Oil on canvas 9'2''x7''Located in Louvre, Paris

Bernini

Van Loo Portrait of  Madame Pompadour

	Andre Boulle King's Commode 1708