André Le Nôtre, (born March 12, 1613, Paris, France—died September 15, 1700, Paris), one of the greatest French landscape architects, his masterpiece being the gardens of Versailles.. Today's sculpted décor was added at the end of the 19th century.The Ballroom Grove was the last grove to be laid out in the gardens by Along with the Dauphin's Grove, its corresponding grove to the north, the Girandole Grove was one of the first groves to be laid out by Le Nôtre in 1663. Work on the gardens was started at the same time as the work on the palace and lasted for 40 or so years. The gardens of Versailles were planned by André Le Nôtre, perhaps the most famous and influential landscape architect in French history.

The film begins in Paris in 1682, with a tiny French prince soiling himself at court. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.To the south of the terrace, raised flower beds lead to a pair of staircases that flank the Orangerie, a grove planned by North of the terrace, manicured ornamental gardens slope gently down to the Water Walk, a path lined with bronze sculptures and geometric The walkways and paths of the parks are decorated with statues, vases, and manicured Among the chief attractions of Versailles are the fountains and waterworks commissioned by Louis XIV in imitation of those at Beyond the present park (but within the grounds at the time of Louis XIV) are two smaller châteaux known as the Trianons. The Marquis de Dangeau, a contemporary of Under the reign of Louis XIV the gardens of Versailles contained fifteen groves. In 1661 Louis XIV entrusted André Le Nôtre with the creation and renovation of the gardens of Versailles, which he considered just as important as the Palace. It replaced a grove designed by Le Nôtre in 1678: the Ancient gallery, where in 1680 Louis XIV ordered a remarkable collection of ancient sculptures or sculptures modelled on ancient sculptures to be positioned on pedestals rising out of the canal surrounding a central section with polychrome tiling.

The upper pool tumbled through four cascading stairways into the lower one.Today's Apollo's Baths Grove dates from the reign of The Star Grove, laid out in 1666, took its name from its shape, one of the most complex in the garden. Required fields are marked * Post comment.
The grove was designed as an amphitheatre of greenery. The works began in 1680 and were completed in 1685. This grove replaced the famous Labyrinth grove, installed in 1665-1666 and enhanced in 1677 with a series of thirty-nine painted lead fountains in a lifelike representation of the animals in Aesop's fables. The extremities of this veritable open-air museum were enhanced with fountains. Among the wigs is the blatan… The Grand Dauphin, the son of Louis XIV, organised a great dinner there to celebrate its inauguration.

In 1671 a stone embellishment was added in the form of a large rock. Simple but elegant, the new layout was designed to highlight, in its centre, a new type of tree recently introduced in France: the Virginia tulip tree. Add a comment. From the Hall of Mirrors, visitors can admire a great overview of the Gardens of Versailles for which the King of Sun, Louis XIV, had an unconditional love. Restored in 2005, it recovered its design and the water effects desired by the sovereign: in the lower pool, the water jets form a fleur-de-lys, in the middle one a watery vault, and in the upper pool a water column formed by one hundred and forty water jets.All that remains of the Triumphal Arch Grove installed by Le Nôtre between 1677 and 1684 is the lower part, near the Neptune Fountain.