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The Hall of Mirrors (French: Grande Galerie, Galerie des Glaces, Galerie de Louis XIV) is a grand Baroque style gallery and one of the most emblematic rooms in the royal Palace of Versailles near Paris, France.
Corridor showing floor with delft-style tiles, columns decorated with mirrors as well as guilt capitals and bases, dodo panels with aari embroidery, European paintings and mirrors on the walls, Venetian glass chandeliers Corridor lined with China tiles and mirror works on the walls. The Aina Mahal is located near Prag Mahal. It is a two-storey ...
Hand-coloured photograph of the original Amber Room, 1931 Autochrome of the Amber Room in the Catherine Palace, 1917 Reconstructed Amber Room, 2003. The Amber Room (Russian: Янтарная комната, romanized: Yantarnaya Komnata, German: Bernsteinzimmer) was a chamber decorated in amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors, located in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near ...
The palace and its most famous chamber, the Hall of Mirrors, were the location of the signing of the fourth Peace of Pressburg by Johann I Josef, Prince of Liechtenstein, Ignácz Gyulay and Charles Maurice de Talleyrand in 1805 after the Battle of Austerlitz, which effectively ended the War of the Third Coalition.
The climax of the 1947 Orson Welles film The Lady from Shanghai takes place in a maze of mirrors. In the finale of Enter the Dragon (1973), Bruce Lee's character navigates a mirror maze by breaking through the mirrors. Francisco Scaramanga's "Fun House" in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun has a house of mirrors.
The Sheesh Mahal (Urdu: شیش محل; "The Palace of Mirrors") is a palace located within the Shah Burj block at the north-western corner of Lahore Fort.It was constructed under the reign of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in 1631–32, with later additions made under Sikh Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
Palace of Mirrors, also authored by Margaret Peterson Haddix, was published in 2008 by Simon & Schuster is the second book of The Palace Chronicles. [1] [2] The plot revolves around Cecelia, a girl who believes she is the true princess of Suala, and her quest to claim the throne.
The group portrait depicts soldiers, diplomats and politicians who attended the conference while the treaty was signed in the opulent surroundings of Louis XIV's Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles. High up can be seen the words "Le Roy Gouverne par lui meme" (French: "The King governs alone").