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Sun King - REDUX

One of Louis XIV's grand entrance(s) to the palace of Versailles. RE-worked in post to adjust in colour, contrast and more importantly, perspective.

 

Louis XIV chose the sun as his emblem (Look to the clock at the peak of the main entrance). The sun was associated with Apollo, god of peace and arts, and was also the heavenly body which gave life to all things, regulating everything as it rose and set. Like Apollo, the warrior-king Louis XIV brought peace, was a patron of the arts, and dispensed his bounty.

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Uploaded on April 23, 2019
Taken on January 7, 2015