POWER OF ROYALTY

Kings: Philip II and Louis XIV

Versailles

Palace of Versailles

• Located: Versailles

• Louis XIII – built a hunting lodge

• Louis XIV --- enlarges the lodge• a. built to have galas & show his power• b. brought nobles under his thumb • c. Centralized the government by taking power

away from the nobles

Palace of Versailles

El Escorial

El Escorial

• Located: Madrid Philip II of Spain• Designed: chosen to honor Saint Lawrence & celebrate

victory over Henry II (France) on 10 August 1557 (feast of St. Lawrence)

• a. martyred: roasted to death on a gridiron • b. floor plan: gridiron to honor the saint• c. main building: palace & monastery (decades to build)• d. turn complex upside down: 4 corner legs and middle is

the grill • e. bedrooms: Philip’s on the right & his wife’s on the left• each with window looking into the chapel

El Escorial

Assignment

• Philip II of Spain (1556-1598) built the Escorial and Louis XIV of France (1643-1715) built Versailles.

• Starting with the pictures of these palaces analyze the similarities and differences in the conception and practice of monarchy of these two kings.