Word: linderhof
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...only thing that really interests him. It is thus natural for him to see Ludwig's molars as the mirror of his soul, while ignoring the fact that quite another side of the royal character was expressed in such glorious excesses as the romantic Schloss Neuschwanstein, the rococo Linderhof, and the unfinished imitation of Versailles, Schloss Herrenchiemsee. Ludwig's edifice complex may nearly have bankrupted his kingdom and cost him his throne, but he was, lunatic or not, the last great master builder of the Romantic...
...clearly foreshadows the Jugendstil 30 years before its prime. Sketches for carved colonnades incorporate fantastic root-and-branch configurations that would have delighted Spain's art nouveau master, Antoni Gaudí. Ludwig's two other palaces both evoke the rococo splendors of Louis XIV of France. From Linderhof come tutti-frutti-colored, specially commissioned Sèvres porcelain, embroidered screens inspired by Boucher, and Ludwig's magnificent throne, a Beardsleyan Oriental divan backed by three haughty, blue-and-green-enameled peacocks...
...robe of rich stuff lies across his knees and those of the young officer who is always beside him?for Ludwig will have none of women. The mad King loves, and believes he has always loved, Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), wife of Louis XVI. For her Ludwig has built Linderhof, an improvement (think Bavarians) on the Petit Trianon at Versailles. Then, because he admires le grand Monarque, Louis XIV, King Ludwig has built Herrenschiemsee?to surpass even the Palace of Versailles...
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