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The so-called ‘period rooms’ adopted by American museums began to present decorative art objects in purpose-designed, fully furnished interiors. Experience the atmosphere of a great 18th-century royal or aristocratic residence in Paris or the provinces!
This room is one of the most impressive reminders of the Renaissance Louvre! Designed as a royal ballroom, this spacious vaulted gallery marked the arrival of Renaissance architecture in Paris…and since the 17th century, it has displayed a prestigious collection of ancient sculptures.
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The king favored carved and gilded wood furniture and commissioned a broad range of objects in solid silver that included tall candlestands, massive tables, benches and stools, chandeliers, and mirror frames.
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The furniture of Louis XIV was massive and lavishly covered with sculpture and ornament of gilded bronze in the earlier part of the personal rule of King Louis XIV of France (1660–1690). After about 1690, thanks in large part to the furniture designer André Charles Boulle, a more original and delicate style appeared, sometimes known as ...
The splendor-loving Leszczynski regularly received furnishings and luxury goods from the French court as gifts, and the opulent chair seen in the lithograph, the Museum's example, and other pieces of the suite may have been among them.
