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In a ceremony led by Otto von Bismarck, the Prussian king, William I, the assembled German princes and lords declared William I the German emperor in the Hall of Mirrors. Versailles was chosen because it was the headquarters of the united German armies; the Hall of Mirrors was chosen specifically because its ceiling paintings glorified the ...
The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, 28 June 1919 by William Orpen. The end of the 19th and the early 20th century saw the beginning of restoration efforts at the palace, first led by Pierre de Nolhac, poet and scholar and the first conservator, who began his work in 1892. The conservation and restoration were interrupted by ...
In 1994, under the aegis of the Société des amis de Versailles and BNP the painting was restored. [1] During the reign of Louis XV the room served as a ball room as the King felt the salon de Mars was too small and the Hall of Mirrors was too large.
[72] [73] It was in the Hall of Mirrors that Wilhelm I was declared German Emperor on 18 January 1871, before a crowd of officers and German princes. [73] The symbolism of an enemy Prussian being crowned at Versailles, in a room whose ceiling depicts Louis XIV's victories against the Germans, was a source of bitter humiliation for the French. [74]
The 1871 event took place in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, the ceiling on which was celebrated by Louis XIV, the Sun King, as a conqueror of German cities and states. At the time of the imperial proclamation, the French capital Paris was besieged by coalition troops.
The second chapel was constructed as part of Louis XIV's second building campaign (1669–1672), when Louis Le Vau constructed the Château Neuf.When the new part of the château was completed, the chapel was situated in the Grand appartement de la reine and formed the symmetrical pendant with the Salon de Diane in the Grand appartement du roi.
His notable decorative works included the ceiling of the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles. [ 18 ] The major painters of the later reign of Louis XIV included Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659–1743) who came to Paris in 1681, and attracted the attention of Le Brun.
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