Chapter 387: Something Outside the Body
Ye Chao visited all the artworks inside, remembered Napoleon's ambitions, smiled, and didn't even have the idea of stealing these things for himself.
These things are all things outside the body, and Ye Chao is not interested.
What's the use of more money?
What's the use of more art?
What's the use of Napoleon, no matter how powerful he is? Is he still alive today?
It's gone.
Sometimes, when you think about life, you can't help but be pessimistic.
As there is a poem in "The Enlightenment of Truth" that says:
If you don't seek to get lost, you can't be a husband if you don't want to be virtuous.
A hundred years of time is shining, and his life experience is blistering.
is only greedy for fame and fortune and glory, and does not consciously describe it as dark and dry.
Just ask the mountains such as piles of gold, impermanence can not be bought.
Although there is a hundred years of life, it is unpredictable to live and be poor.
Yesterday the streets were still walking, and now the corpse is sleeping in the coffin.
If you leave your wife and wealth behind, your sin will be difficult to deceive yourself.
Big medicine doesn't seek to be met, and it's stupid not to refine it.
Ye Chao naturally read this "Enlightenment Chapter" in order to relieve the demons in his heart, but among the many living beings, there are a few people who have the heart to seek immortals.
Among those who seek immortality and ask for immortality, how many of them have perseverance and perseverance.
Among those who have perseverance and perseverance, there are a few who can leave behind their wives and wealth......
Very few.
The things in the Louvre were stolen.
But now, the people who robbed them have themselves turned into a pile of wasteland......
They won't be anyone's forever.
Having visited the Louvre, Ye Chao naturally will not let go of Versailles.
The Palace of Versailles is the jewel of French art.
The palace and gardens are spectacular and exquisite, with artistic furnishings and decorations, and an art museum on the ground floor. It is also a place where French leaders meet with foreign heads of state and envoys. It is the center of commerce and services on the outskirts of Paris, and has the special functions of a conference city and a garrison camp for the garrison, with a military, a hospital and a military academy. The northern part of the city is occupied by commercial and handicraft areas, and the southern part is occupied by aristocratic quarters.
Initially, in order to eliminate the danger of secession and rebellion by powerful local French nobles (such as the family of Prince Condé), Louis XIV concentrated the country's main aristocracy in Versailles immediately after the completion of the Palace of Versailles.
At the turn of the century, the exterior of the Palace of Versailles was only a small village. In the 17th century, when Louis XIV built his palace, it developed into a place where nobles from all over France gathered.
In the 18th century, a new urban plan was implemented, churches were built, hotel facilities were developed, schools were built, and settlements developed to the north. On the eve of the French Revolution, it became the capital of the French dynasty. After the Revolution, the city fell into decline.
The palace of Versailles is a classicist style building, and the façade is a standard classicist three-stage treatment, that is, the façade is divided into vertical and horizontal sections, the building is symmetrical on the left and right, the shape outline is neat, solemn and majestic, and is known as the representative of rational beauty.
The interior is mainly Baroque, with a few halls in the Rococo style.
In front of the main palace is a large garden with a unique style of "French style", and the trees and flowers in the garden are ingenious, making people feel beautiful after looking at them. The gardens around the complex are also world-famous.
It has a very different style from classical Chinese and royal gardens. It is entirely artificially crafted, with great attention to symmetry and geometry.
If the exterior of the Palace of Versailles gives a sense of grandeur, then its interior furnishings and decorations are even more artistic, and the interior decoration is extremely luxurious and opulent.
The 500 halls and halls are splendid and luxurious: the walls are decorated with carvings, huge paintings and tapestries, and furnishings of the 17th and 18th centuries.
The Marble Courtyard and the Hall of Mirrors are two of the most prominent, and in addition to the interior decoration mentioned above, the sun is also a common subject, as it is the symbol of Louis XIV. Sometimes it appears on the wall along with weapons and armor.
In addition to decorating the interior with portraits, the interior is also decorated with animal images such as lions, eagles, and unicorns. Some of them are also cast into stair railings made of metal, and some metal fittings are also gilded with marble in various colors, which looks very brilliant.
In addition to the semi-circular arches like the Hall of Mirrors, the ceiling also has a flat and hemispherical dome, and the ceiling has both paintings and reliefs. The palace is full of precious artworks from all over the world, including fine porcelain from ancient China.
However, the Palace of Versailles' excessive pursuit of grandeur and luxury made the residential function extremely inconvenient. There was no toilet or toilet in the palace, and even the Dauphin had to defecate in the fireplace in his bedroom, and Louis XV hated the palace, which was spacious and luxurious, but not warm.
This is where the disadvantages of Versailles lie.
But in any case, the Palace of Versailles has always been a magnificent monument to the historical period of French feudal rule. In terms of content, it was not only the French court, but also the administrative center of the country, and it was also the concrete embodiment of the social and political views and lifestyles of France at that time.
It was the first time since the ancient Roman Empire that Europe showed the power of an autocratic government capable of concentrating such huge human, material, and financial resources.
At that time, Louis XIV had to use more than 30,000 workers, architects, engineers, and technicians to build it, and in addition to solving the complex technical problems of building a large-scale complex, he also had to solve various problems such as water diversion and roads. It can be seen that the success of the Palace of Versailles is a powerful proof of the economic and technological progress of France and the wisdom of the working people at that time.
Artistically speaking, the magnificent façade and strictly regular garden design of the Palace of Versailles are the result of the ideas of cultural classicism at the height of France's feudal autocracy. For hundreds of years, European royal gardens have almost followed its design philosophy.
The architectural style of the Palace of Versailles aroused the envy of the monarchs of Russia, Austria and other countries.
Peter I's summer palace on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, Maria Theresia's Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Frederick II's and Frederick Wilhelm II's Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam, and King Ludwig II of Bavaria's Schloss Herrenchiemsee were modeled after the palaces and gardens of Versailles.
It is one of the famous classical gardens in France. The whole garden of the Palace of Versailles is designed in an "axis" style, and the buildings are integrated into the landscape layout of the whole garden.
In the main landscape structure of the whole park, a large number of static water features such as canals and canals are applied to the flat terrain. These mirror-like regular water surfaces add a vast, far-reaching momentum to the whole garden.
The topography of Versailles is not as varied in elevation as the Italian terrace garden, but uses a large number of gentle slopes and micro-topographic variations. Pay more attention to the delicacy and elegance of gardening techniques. Especially in the creation of its main axis, the topographical changes with little difference in elevation create a soothing visual effect.
The staggering of topographic slopes and pool canals, in precise proportions, takes advantage of optical illusions. It embodies a very strong outward-looking malleability and highlights the infinity of the vast space. The perfect transition from architecture to nature is completed.
Rich topographic changes are created on some local garden nodes, and more attention is paid to the creation of landscape styles and landscape characteristics in different small gardens on both sides of the main axis. There are a total of 1,400 fountains in the garden for people to enjoy.
The 1.6-kilometre-long cruciform man-made Grand Canal is particularly noteworthy, where Louis XIV arranged sailboats for naval battles or gondolas and gondoliers modeled after the canals of Venice.