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20 de jul. de 2021 · From the Palace of Versailles, King Louis XIV commanded not only the kingdom of France but also the kingdom of animals. In the world-famous gardens, he created an extraordinary menagerie of beasts, a living, breathing allegory for the Sun King’s power over all he surveyed.
The animals in the menagerie were also a great source of inspiration for the artists of the time: they helped Claude Perrault with his Natural History, as well as serving the Royal Academy of Sciences as subjects for dissections and, later, Louis XV and Louis XVI, in their naturalism pursuits.
Unlike the menagerie at the Château de Vincennes, created in 1661 by Louis XIV for the show of fighting wild animals, the Menagerie of Versailles was a place of pleasure and discovery for the court, visitors, artists and scientists.
El elefante de Luis XIV (1664 aprox.-1681 en Versalles) fue un regalo del rey de Portugal a Luis XIV, rey de Francia, y es considerado el único elefante africano de probada existencia en Europa entre 1483 y 1862.
This article examines the shift in animal spectatorship at the beginning of the reign of Louis XIV (the 1660s) from the violence of wild animal combat at the Vincennes Menagerie to the peaceful display of graceful of graceful birds in the first.
The royal menagerie was a source of great pride to Louis XIV, who had it constructed in the early days of Versailles. It was populated with animals that most Europeans had never seen before, often gifts from ambassadors: lions, tigers, lynx, camels, llamas, ostriches, flamingos, gazelles….
20 de may. de 2024 · Louis XIV, king of France (1643–1715) who ruled his country during one of its most brilliant periods and who remains the symbol of absolute monarchy of the classical age. He extended France’s eastern borders at the expense of the Habsburgs and secured the Spanish throne for his grandson.
