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Versailles: aerial view and, above, view looking west over Grand Canal |
![]() Cour de Marbre (Marble Courtyard), Louis XIII's original hunting lodge |
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The "Envelope," the original garden facade by Louis Le Vaux |
![]() Extended garden front: the Envelope as modified by Jules Hardouin-Mansart |
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![]() Hall of Mirrors, (left); Salon of War (above) Le Brun interior architect and painter |
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![]() Versailles: chapel, ceiling fresco by Coypel |
![]() Rome: Ceiling fresco of Il Gesu by Bacciccio |