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Hardouin Mansart started building the War Room in 1678. The decoration, completed by Le Brun in 1686, pays tribute to the military victories which led to the peace treaties of Nijmegen. The walls are covered with marble panels decorated with six trophies and weapons in gilded bronze.
Eventually it was decided to demolish it and architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart was tasked with the design development and the construction of the Mirror Hall Gallery and artist Charles Le Brun received the honor to create the interior decorative apparatus.
This vast gallery (73 m in length, 10.5 m in height and 12.3 m in width) was constructed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart in 1678 and its vaulted ceiling was painted by Charles Le Brun between 1681 and 1684. The seventeen bay windows are matched by seventeen arches decorated with mirrors.
Jules Hardouin-Mansart 1646-1708. Charles Questel ... Marie Leszczynska 1703-1768. Louis XVII ... André Charles Boulle 1642-1732. Count of La Pérouse
Besides Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Charles Le Brun, the greatest artists contributed to embellishing the site, and their works can be seen today in the Cour Marly in the Louvre.
May 7, 2021 · France's Palace of Versailles features 700 rooms, but the Hall of Mirrors is the most famous and the most extravagant of them all. According to the palace's official website, architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart designed the gallery to replace an impractical open terrace.
Completed in 1686, the Hall of Mirrors—la Galerie des Glaces in French—is located in the central block of the palace on the back, or garden side. Originally an open gallery, it was enclosed by...
