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
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  • 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
    • French Court Sculpture
    • Louis XIV
    • Louis 14th
    • Louis the 14th
    • Palace of Versailles
    • Gardens of the Palace of Versailles
    • Phaethon
    • Apollo
    • Bassin d'Apollon
    • Bassin du Char d'Apollon
    • Fontaine d'Apollon
    • Fontaine du Char d'Apollon
    • Jean-Baptiste TUBY
    • Char du Soleil
    • Pond of Apollo
    • Pond of the Chariot of Apollo
    • Fountain of Apollo
    • Fountain of the Chariot of Apollo
    • Jean-Baptiste TUBY
    • Chariot of the Sun
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