ABRAMS | ISBN:1419700677 | File Type: PDF, 479 pages | File size: 24.Mb | Mar. 1st, 2012
General Art: A spectacarly opent relic of royal wealth and power comes alive in Versailles Highlighting the chateau s vibrant tumtuous 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 singar chateau 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 raise for Versailles This lavish photographic tour of the famed chateau s colorf 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 rofile
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