1678 Architecture - Petit Appartement Du Roi, Petit Appartement de La Reine, Sant'andrea Al Quirinale, St Nicholas' Church, Nottingham (Paperback)

Chapters: Petit Appartement Du Roi, Petit Appartement de La Reine, Sant'andrea Al Quirinale, St Nicholas' Church, Nottingham, Hancu Monastery, Smith's Castle, Soestdijk Palace, Peter Tufts House, Joshua Hempsted House, Rebecca Nurse Homestead, Coffin House, Cushing Homestead. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 59. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The petit appartement du roi of the Palace of Versailles is a suite of rooms used by Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI. Located on the first floor of the palace, the rooms are found in the oldest part of the palace dating from the reign of Louis XIII. Under Louis XIV, these rooms housed the kings collections of artworks and book, forming a museum of sorts. Under Louis XV and Louis XVI, the rooms were modified to accommodate private living quarters. At this time, the rooms were transformed and their decoration represent some of the finest extant examples of the style Louis XV and style Louis XVI at Versailles (Kimball, 1943). Beginning in 1678, Louis XIV began to modify these rooms for his particular private needs. The configuration of the rooms dating from the time of Louis XIII was modified. The most significant alteration for this era was the relocation of the degre du roi from the exterior cour de marbre to the interior cour du roi. This relocation of the staircase precipitated the rearrangement of rooms in this part of the chateau to become the petit appartement du roi. In 1684, as the influence of Louis mistress Francoise-Athenais, marquise de Montespan waned due to her alleged involvement in the Affair of the Poisons, the king attached her rooms to his petit appartement after the marquise moved into the appartement des bains on the ground floor of the palace (Le Guillou, 1986; Verlet 1985, pp. 227-228). In Louis XIV's day, these roo...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1564199