Chateau de Versailles
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 | Chateau de Versailles |
| Designer | Andre Le Notre, Louis Le Vau, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Charles Le Brun, Robert de Cotte, Ange-Janques Bagriel |
| Location | Versailles, France |
| Date | 1661 to 1774 |
| Building Type | royal palace, large house |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | royal estate |
| Architectural Style | Baroque |
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| Notes | "Versailles Palace", ro the "Palace of Versailles". The "immense palace" of the king of France, Louis XIV. See also the nearby <a href="/buildings/Le_Petit_Trianon.html">Le Petit Trianon</a>, and see other works by <a href="/architects/Jules_Hardouin_Mansart.html">Jules Hardouin-Mansart</a> and <a href="/architects/Ange-Jacques_Gabriel.html">Ange-Janques Bagriel</a>. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Chateau_de_Versailles.html |
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| UNESCO World Heritage Sites | |
| Name | Palace and Park of Versailles |
| UNESCO State Party | France |
| Region | Europe and North America |
| Type | Cultural |
| Criteria | i, ii, vi |
| UNESCO Site ID | 83 |
| Year of Listing | 1979 |
| Building Details |
"When you arrive at Versailles, from the courtyard side you see a wretched, top-heavy building, with a facade seven windows long, surrounded with everything which the imgination could conceive in the way of bad taste. When you see it from the garden side, you see an immense palace whose defects are more than compensated by beauties."
— Voltaire
Details
2143 windows, 1252 fireplaces, and 67 staircases. The gardens included roughly 1400 fountains, using water pumped up from the Seine.
The length of the garden front is 670 meters.
The Chapel, one of the last parts built (Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Robert de Cotte, 1710), is one of the architectural highlights.
Palace of Versailles
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Sir Banister Fletcher. Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture. 18th ed., revised by J.C. Palmes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. ISBN 684-14207-4. NA200.F63. — The classic text of architectural history. Expanded 1996 edition available at Amazon.com
Johnson Architectural Images. Copyrighted slides in the Artifice Collection.
Randall J. Van Vunckt, ed. International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture : Volume 2, Architecture. Detroit: St. James Press, 1993. ISBN 1-55862-087-7. LC 93-13431. NA40.I48 1993. 720'.9-dc20.
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Chateau de Versailles — the official web site
