Palace Of Versailles Research Paper

Throughout the history of art, the human body and figure has captivated both artisans and their audiences. This can be said especially of the Greeks and their sculptures. Even from the earliest periods, Greeks motivation for the search of the ideal human body can be seen through the sculpture Metropolitan Kouros (c 120-50 BCE), created in the Archaic period and said to be found in Attica, Ancient Greece (Richter 1931, p. 220). However, it is not until High Classical period that they truly achieve their goal with Polykleitos’ The Spear Bearer (c. 120-50 BCE) or the Doryphoros (its Greek name). The sculpture, found in a Palestra in Pompeii, Italy is said to be the epitome of perfection during its period. Although there is exquisite rendering and beauty in both sculptures, there are also a vast number of differences that make each work unique.

Its architecture has Greek form with a high structure of marble that shows off a large frieze portraying an epic battle on the base’s walls. The cracked figures on the frieze fight violently against each other, and even with the test of time, their features are descriptive and their faces show much varied expression. The most impressive part of the Altar of Zeus is the sculptural frieze depicting the struggle of the gods and the giants. It is clear on the altar’s frieze’s that the artist/sculpture of the alter worked towards a natural view of the characters on them, borrowed from the classical period but sculpted them to be in more of realistic portrayal. The construction of a frieze seemed to be a fairly popular architectural enhancement at the time; this outer frieze is one of the most famous. The sculpted figures on it create a new height of Greek realistic representations and architecture in modeling, composition, and expression of emotion. The emotions of the figures are one of the aesthetics that makes the frieze so unique and beautiful. As the battle scene is unified; the winning and losing sides are clearly cut. The artist makes the battle and its characters easily perceivable. The look of suffering in defeat is on all the giants’ twisted faces. Drastically opposite is Zeus and his fellow gods who are seen as completely expressionless. The overall style of the frieze is very intense, to say the

The film A Village called Versailles presents the story of vietnamese Americans after the occurrence of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The film begins by introducing some of the historical events to which the vietnamese community have experienced. One of the most relevant topics in accordance to the course material, is the meaning of religion for the vietnamese community. In correlation to the natural disaster, the vietnamese community utilized the religious space as a space where they discuss issues like the rebuilt of their structural community. This tight-knit community was determined to rebuild their community through organized activism.

After it was ruined they fixed it into something even better, they put a cout in the center of the palace and then they had a throne room and at the bottom of the storage room was a couple of storage room’s. So that’s why when they destroyed it it made it better because they made something new out of it.

Just outside of Paris, France lies another great historical site, the Palace of Versailles. Even though this palace has so much to look at on the inside ranging from giant gold statues to beautiful designs painted on the ceiling, I became interested about what I saw on the outside of those giant walls. The Palace of Versailles has a very unique arrangement of water fountains that each show some Baroque characteristics. For instance, my favorite one has to be Enceladus Fountain. It is a fountain of one of the great titans, Enceladus, being buried under a heaping pile of rocks because the titans disobeyed the Roman God Jupiter after he told them not to try to Mt. Olympus (Graves, 1960). I think that because of the number of fountains and elegant interior design of the buildings in the Palace of Versailles, the people of Paris are rich in Greek mythology and its history. They have many other pieces of art, including the Enceladus Fountain, that are inside of the Palace of Versailles that back this statement

Charles Le Brun, a renowned 17th century artist-politician lived between 1619 and 1690. He gained prominence through his impeccable paintings, coupled with his mastery of creation in the architecture of gardens, buildings, and in sculptures. Le Brun drew his inspiration from Michelangelo, which expanded his horizons by creating sculptures and architecture, alongside painting. As one of the dominant artists in France, Le Brun put immense value on visual expression in an era of expressionism. He is responsible for the decoration in the Palace of Versailles, Hesselin, and Vaux. In fact, Le Brun designed almost every decorative detail in the Palace of Versailles, which included decorations, artwork, and landscape. Built for King Louis XIV, the Palace of Versailles is an elaborate, magnificent representation of French Baroque architecture, and it is one of the most famous royal chateaus in France. The scale of its decoration comprises of the rhythmic repetition of large windows expressing core values of Baroque art. According to Baroque architecture, buildings required a focal point, and within the interior of the Palace of Versailles, the point of focus is the King’s bed. Palace of Versailles is a perfect example of how Classical and Baroque art and architecture styles can create royal

Versailles is a very beautiful room in the Royal Country Club. This room is the biggest and the most beautiful room. It is located between the Bistro room and the main office. It is designed to be a banquet room, and it can hold about two hundred people. The shape of the Versailles is rectangular with a curved ceiling. On the ceiling, there are two long golden chandeliers lights. Those chandelier can give light the whole room. In the Versailles the temperature is always cold, and it is very quiet, but it has slow classic music. When I just stand in this room, first thing I see is a big white couch and long wide fireplace. This fireplace is lights for the whole day, to make the room warm and it is good for guests

My favorite topic from this weeks reading was the description of the Knossos palace complex. It astonishes me that the Minoan civilization was able to build a palace with multiple stories, flat roofs, and many columns. Even in todays times it’s not easy to build a huge multistory palace. In fact if the recreation shown in the book looks anything like the original palace then it seems to me like we have kept similar designs over all of these years. My initial thoughts about it was that it reminded me of one of the dormitories at my school. It also amazes me how they moved around all of the materials for the palaces since they didn't have the advanced machinery of today. Aside from the construction of the palace, its style and design is also

I chose to do a virtual tour of the Palace of Versailles. I am fascinated by the royal family so the Palace of Versailles is deemed suitable because it is the home of the monarchy of France. I began my virtual tour of the most famous room known as the Hall of Mirrors. As you walk through the room, you can see chandeliers after chandeliers lined the center of the ceiling and to the sides. The room is structured like a barrel vault with round arch windows symmetric to the mirrors reflecting the garden. Golden sculptures of women are placed in between the mirrors against the marble wall. The vaulted ceilings are covered with illustrations of the success of France painted by Le Brun. He also decorated the rooms so his artistic vision can be seen everywhere. My initial reaction of the room was that it is very elegant and magnificent. I’ve never seen anything so spectacular before. Every aspect of the room is a work of art on its own. The paintings that covered the vaulted ceiling were very

The palace of Versailles was built in 1624 by Louis XIII. It was at first a lodge of brick and stone that was designed by an architect called Jacques Lemercier. It was not a palace after the next king of France Louis XIV (also called the “Sun God” made it one. It was the official residence of the Kings of France from 1682 until 1790. The first phase of expansion was between 1661 and 1678. This first phase was designed and supervised by another architect called Louis Le Vau in which he added three new wings of stone called in french the “enveloppe” which means in english “envelope”. After Louis Le Vau died in 1670, his assistant Francois d’Orbai took his place and completed the work. The gardens were landscaped by André Le Nôtr and Charles

Title- The road from Versailles: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the fall of the French Monarchy

Royal Palace, in New Haven, is famous for its incredible array of regional Chinese cuisine, like Sichuan, Cantonese and Sino-American, served in its warm and relaxing eatery. For a tantalizing start to your meal, enjoy the homemade pickled cabbage in hot oil and the crispy shrimp balls. Some of Royal Palace’s house specialty entrées include the tender slices of roast pork with special savory sauce, the chopped ginger lobster with scallions and the spicy sesame-breaded Sichuan crispy chicken. The Sino-American dishes include well-known and perfectly prepared noodle entrees, such as the thin noodle shrimp mi fen, the wide noodle beef mi fen, as well as Chinese omelet-style roast pork egg foo young.

Ancient Greek architecture is one of the most fascinating learning experiences to exist. You can learn so much from it including their life style because of the patterns on the temples and pottery they created. One text that explains their architecture is “Ancient Greek Art” which tells the reader the material they used and why. Another passage is the myth of “King Midas and the Golden Touch”. This myth is about a king who gets greedy and wants everything gold, however it does not work out when he turns his daughter gold. He realizes that beuty isn’t everything and the original castle was unique like other Ancient Greek Architectures that have been ruined or broken down.

Salomon de Brosse (1571-1626) was one of the first French architects to adopt the baroque style, in the construction of the Palais du Luxembourg. French Baroque is known for its opulence, although it has roots in the Portuguese word baroque meaning “imperfect pearl” not everything baroque is imperfect. Louis Le Vau was the main architect and designer of the Palace of Versailles known as a perfectionist and credited with introducing the full baroque style to France. Architect and designer, Charles le Brun and Andre Le Norte known for designing enormous formal gardens were also used as architects on the Palace of Versailles. My project exemplifies French Baroque structure by showing elaborate marble flooring, stone columns, carved corbels, decorative iron, arched pane doors, balustrades, carved medallions, statues, intricate gold carvings and a focal point of an enormous gold carved

Versailles was not always a château or a royal palace it was also a country village on the road to Paris. Now let’s step back to when it was being built. There was a total of four campaigns each lasting around 4-20 years. The first campaign was building the garden and apartments to accommodate 600 guest invited to a celebration party and not much else happened in this campaign. The second building campaign was mainly about creating a place for the royal family to stay at. Louis XIV the king had his own room and his queen also had her own room. Louis’ XIV brother and sister-in-law had their own room as well. A hunting lodge for the royal family was also created for them to stay at as well. The second campaign was also being at