Author: Constans, Claire and Xavier Salmon, eds
Title: Splendors of Versailles
Description: New York, Welcome Enterprises, 1998. Softcover. Illustrated wraps with white lettering; 223 pp. with color illustrations. Published in conjunction with a 1998 exhibit of 120 treasures from Louis XIV's Chateau de Versailles. "Among the highlights of this unique event .. are a recreation of the King's Bedchamber, complete with silk brocades recently restoresi n Paris, a gallery of the famous Gobelins tapestries, and a full-size, ten-ton replica of the Equestrian Statue of Louis XIV, the controversial masterpiece by the great Baroque sculptor-architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini. VG .

Keywords: European Art ; Mississippi Arts Pavilion Collection ; ; Collections - European Art


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