POWER OF ROYALTY Kings: Philip II and Louis XIV. Versailles.
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POWER OF ROYALTY
Kings: Philip II and Louis XIV
Versailles
Palace of Versailles
• Located: Versailles
• Louis XIII – built a hunting lodge
• Louis XIV --- enlarges the lodge• a. built to have galas & show his power• b. brought nobles under his thumb • c. Centralized the government by taking power
away from the nobles
Palace of Versailles
El Escorial
El Escorial
• Located: Madrid Philip II of Spain• Designed: chosen to honor Saint Lawrence & celebrate
victory over Henry II (France) on 10 August 1557 (feast of St. Lawrence)
• a. martyred: roasted to death on a gridiron • b. floor plan: gridiron to honor the saint• c. main building: palace & monastery (decades to build)• d. turn complex upside down: 4 corner legs and middle is
the grill • e. bedrooms: Philip’s on the right & his wife’s on the left• each with window looking into the chapel
El Escorial
Assignment
• Philip II of Spain (1556-1598) built the Escorial and Louis XIV of France (1643-1715) built Versailles.
• Starting with the pictures of these palaces analyze the similarities and differences in the conception and practice of monarchy of these two kings.