#apollo room

[ukdamo]

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits is another from the Papal Apartments in Castel Sant'Angelo; the ceiling of the Apollo Room.

[fullcomposure]

Apollo room at Versailles (more on flickr)

[yaboi-kusama]

[mesbeauxarts-blog]

Charles Le Brun (decorator), Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart (architects). Salon d'Apollon, Grand Appartement du Roi. 17th-18th centuries; Ceiling painting by Charles de la Fosse: in the center Apollo in his chariot drawn by four horses, accompanied by figures of France, Magnanimity, and Magnificence, and the procession of the seasons represented by Flora, Ceres, Bacchusand Saturn, in the the voussoirs Porus being brought before Alexander (North), Coriolanus raising the siege of Rome at the request of his mother (East), Vespasian erecting the Colosseum in Rome (South), and Augustus building the port of Misena (West), in the four corners of the ceiling are allegorical depictions of the four continents; six (four shown) torchères (candlestands), designed by Jacques Gondouin, four in the form of a draped woman carrying a cornucopia (sculpted by Pierre-Edmé Babel), and two in the form of a group of children (sculpted by Toussaint Foliot), 1769; tapestry from la Manufacture nationale de la Savonnerie (ca. 18th century). Painting: Hyacinthe Rigaud. Louis XIV, King of France. 1702. 

Paintings: oil on canvas; torchères: carved wood, gilded; tapestery: made of wool with some silk in the small details.

Salon d'Apollon, le Grand Appartement du Roi, Château de Versailles. Versailles, France.