Lectures
Louis XIV's Savonnerie Carpets: The World's Largest Jigsaw Puzzle
Wednesday, February 11
5:30 – 6:30 PM
This lecture explores Louis XIV’s Savonnerie carpets—woven for the Galerie d’Apollon and Grande Galerie of the Louvre—one of the most ambitious and enigmatic masterpieces of the Baroque era. Commissioned on a grand scale, The King’s Carpet (le tapis du roi) consisted of 92 individual pieces designed to cover the entire span of the Louvre’s Grande Galerie—six times the length of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.
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