Versailles

Versailles

  • Palace

    • Apotheosis of Hercules

      presentation of the text published in the Mercure de France for the inauguration of the ceiling of the Salon d'Hercule (Hercules Room) of the Palace of Versailles, « The Apotheosis of Hercules » by King Louis XV on 1736 september, 26th probably written by painter François Lemoyne.

      • History of France
      • Mythology
      • Culture of royal french court
      • Louis XV
      • François Lemoyne
      • François Le Moine
      • Salon d'Hercule
      • Apothéose d'Hercule
      • Hercules Room
      • Apotheosis of Hercules
      hercules

  • Gardens

    • Latona

      Text from Book 6 of The Metamorphoses written by Ovid that inspired the Latona fountain in the Gardens of the Palace of Versailles

      • History of France
      • Mythology
      • Culture of royal french court
      • Litterature of the Roman Empire
      • Roman Imperial Litterature
      • Palace of Versailles
      • Gardens
      • Latona Fountain
      latona

    • Phaethon

      Text extracted from chapter “Phaethon” of book II of Ovid's Metamorphoses, at the origin of figure of Apollo, god of the Sun, as represented in the group of “The Chariot of the Sun”, as carried out by Jean-Baptiste TUBY between 1668 and 1671 in the center of the Apollo Pond in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles and occasion to approach the meaning that could take that star to Louis XIV

      • History of France
      • Mythology
      • Culture of royal french court
      • Litterature of the Roman Empire
      • Roman Imperial Litterature
      • Ovid
      • Metamorphoses
      • French Sculpture of the Seventeenth century
      • French Sculpture of the 17th century
      • French Sculpture of the XVIIth century
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