Louis XIV

In the Vendôme section, historical documents show the state of Place Vendôme in Paris in the 17th century. Doing so, it is possible to realize its state before the transformations of the 19th century (opening of Rue de la Paix and rue de Castiglione), including the presence of the convent of the Capucines and the enormous statue of King Louis XIV.

• Louis XIV

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

• Mythology
• Ovid
• Louis XIV

The 2 « General Views of the Château de Marly, taken from the water pool 0187 realised in 1723 and 1724 by Pierre-Denis MARTIN are the main documents which make possible to have an spatial representation of what Marly might have been during the reign of King Louis XIV.

• Court painting
• Louis XIV

Text from Book 6 of the Metamorphoses written by Ovid and used by René-Antoine HOUASSE to represent canvas “Minerva and Arachne” that can be found in the Salon des Seigneurs in the Grand Trianon in Versailles

• Mythology
• Court painting
• Ovid
• Louis XIV
• René-Antoine Houasse

Text extract from chapter “Tiresias” of Book III of the « Metamorphosis » of Ovid from which has inspired the painter René-Antoine HOUASSE for the making of his painting “Minerva and Tiresias”

• Mythology
• Court painting
• Ovid
• Louis XIV
• René-Antoine Houasse