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Versailles
Versailles
Authors: by Valérie Bajou
Imprint: Abrams Books
ISBN: 1-4197-0067-7
EAN: 9781419700675
Availability: In Stock
Publishing Date: 3/1/2012
Trim Size: 8 1/4 x 8 1/4
Page Count: 480
Cover: Hardcover
Illustrations: 280 full-color photographs
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About the book
A spectacularly opulent relic of royal wealth and power comes alive in Versailles. Highlighting the château’s vibrant, tumultuous past, the book covers everything from its metamorphosis from humble hunting lodge to palace, to the dismantling of its collections during the French Revolution and its restoration and status as a UNESCO World Heritage site today. In addition, the singular château is explored from top to bottom in an extravagantly extensive photographic tour that reveals the many priceless artistic and architectural treasures of this palace of palaces.

Praise for Versailles:
"This lavish photographic tour of the famed chateau’s colorful history and extravagant treasures of architecture and art is itself somewhat of a treasure: Its gilded page edges and gold-foil lettering appropriately enclose the display of glitz and glamor to be found inside." —American Profile
About the author
Valérie Bajou is a curator at the Château de Versailles. The author of monographs on Frédéric Bazille, Eugène Carrière, and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, she is a renowned specialist of French painting in the 19th century and also teaches at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris.

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