The halls are open for inspection, occupy two floors of the castle. On the first floor apartments are small (22 rooms), Beauty and the Chinese Museum of the Empress Eugenie. On the second floor, large apartments and rooms of the Renaissance, Inner apartments of Napoleon I and the Museum of Napoleon I. Examination organized so that a visitor to the ladder of artificial marble falls primarily to the halls of the 2nd floor. In the lobby of the historic stained glass and gallery are two vases II era of the Empire. The walls of the historic picture on a plan of Napoleon III, were decorated with paintings on historical themes, but only managed to paint the ceiling (emblems). Now here exhibited several paintings, which depicted the events that took place in the palace in its entire history. This is followed by gallery plates, built under Louis Philippe, who ordered the wooden trim insert plate 123 of the Sevres factory with paintings on historical themes.
From this room we get to the gallery of Francis I - very long and narrow room (64 x £ m), but its proportions are completely crushed. The walls are decorated with walnut very warm golden hue, which emphasizes the use of a large number of gilt interior elements. On the carved panels - Francis heraldic symbols - the letter P and the salamander. On the walls and in the spaces between the windows - Italian frescoes - an allegorical reflection of the authors and the king on the themes of morality and religion (illustration board just the monarch). Caisson wooden ceiling is also made in Italian style. Gallery - a masterpiece of the first school of Fontainebleau.
Across the hall guard, salon Louis XV and Madame Maintenon apartments (morganatic wife of Louis XIV in 1683, the hall is often closed) go out into the ballroom, which, after the death of Francis I ordered to finish his son Henry II. Francis wanted to give the shape of a cradle vault of the hall, but Delorme completed caisson ceiling in a typical Italian-style. The lower part of the walls decorated with oak panels that look not so elegant, like a nut gallery of Francis I, but more great power. In the carved decoration commonly used initials of Henry II and his character ~ moon or month. Blazing a sincere passion to Diane de Poitiers, the king, like a lover could not help inscribe the initials of the ladies on the wall of the heart. The letter H plotted on figure II cross two crescent letter S. Gene King explained that this means: 'Henry + Katherine ", but all were convinced that the character correctly read as" Henry + Diana. " The upper part of the wall frescoes on mythological themes designed by Primaticcio.From this room we get to the gallery of Francis I - very long and narrow room (64 x £ m), but its proportions are completely crushed. The walls are decorated with walnut very warm golden hue, which emphasizes the use of a large number of gilt interior elements. On the carved panels - Francis heraldic symbols - the letter P and the salamander. On the walls and in the spaces between the windows - Italian frescoes - an allegorical reflection of the authors and the king on the themes of morality and religion (illustration board just the monarch). Caisson wooden ceiling is also made in Italian style. Gallery - a masterpiece of the first school of Fontainebleau.
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