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    The central gallery is flanked by two side galleries located under the "Escaliers des Cent Marches" (so-called because each staircase has 100 steps). The...
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    designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart. In addition to the Orangerie, the Escaliers des Cent Marches, which facilitated access to the gardens from the south...
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    and the Petit Trianon. Equally significant was the destruction of the Escalier des Ambassadeurs (Ambassadors' Stair), the only fitting approach to the...
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    1655 and 1658. Small vestibule, 1658 to 1803 Cross-section of the Grand Escalier (great staircase) 1658 to 1803 Cross-section of the Grand Vestibule (great...
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    is a good example of a polychrome Louis XVI style interior. Baroque - Escalier des Ambassadeurs of the Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France, by François...
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    Les élémens (category Ballets by Michel-Richard de Lalande)
    and "Fire") were also revived at Madame de Pompadour's Théâtre des Petits Appartements, on the Grand Escalier des Ambassadeurs in the Palace of Versailles...
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  • Petits Appartements, upon the Grand Escalier des Ambassadeurs (Ambassadors' Great Staircase), with a cast starring Madame de Pompadour and other nobles of the...
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  • Bandinelli (1493–1560), 1 drawing : Andrea Doria as Neptune, British Museum, London (url) Jacopo de' Barbari (c. 1445 – 1516), 5 works : Cleopatra, British...
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