Google and Versailles have two virtual exhibitions

The two exhibitions at the Cultural Institute in Google Art Project have the recent history of Versailles and the power of Louis XIV.

The Google Cultural Institute highlights Louis XIV and Versailles.

The Palace of Versailles was one of the first institutions to participate in the Google Art Project to launch in 2011. This partnership continues this fall with the establishment of two virtual exhibitions announced Castle on 8 October 2013: "Louis XIV, the construction of a political image" and "immortalize Versailles."

Accessible to the greatest number, the scientific content, developed specifically for the Web, by the Conservatives, mixed collections of Versailles and Google technologies.The user can navigate back and forth between the paintings, drawings and engravings, review the details and see the video archives.

The first exhibition presents a selection of the most significant works of the Sun King , and through these different images of the sovereign, shows that the absolute monarch was able to make art an instrument of power. It was conducted under the direction of Beatrice Sarrazin, curator at Versailles in charge of paintings of the seventeenth ^century.

The second refers to the contemporary history of the castle , through snapshots of the domain taken from the advent of photography in the nineteenth century. Karen McGrath, curator and head of the archives at Versailles, gathered pictures of official visits by foreign heads of state, views of the park after the devastating 1999 storm or portfolios made by large names in photography to sustain the recent evolution of the castle.

The cultural institute Google now compiles over 5400 works of fifteen countries. It offers interactive virtual tour of 17 of the largest museums in the world.