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Title: Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ...
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Fontenoy, marquise de, pseud
Subjects: Courts and courtiers
Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard Pub. Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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its projecting porch, its loggias, and balconies, presents anexceedingly picturesque aspect. The vestibule is connectedwith a large, sumptuously decorated saloon, the ceiling beingpainted by Paliotti with the Four Seasons. To the right isthe house chapel, in Byzantine style; to the left, the dining-room, in the character of the Italian Renaissance; adjoining,the smoking-room, in Pompeian style. A marble stair-case,with bronze balustrade, leads to the second story, where theapartments of the Empress are situated. The central saloonopens on the Centaur terrace, and is decorated in the Empirestyle with frescoes of Aurora on the ceiling, painted by Paliot-ti. The apartments are filled with art treasures of Pompeianand ancient Greek origin, which the Empress collected her-self The decoration and arrangement of this suite reflectthe individual taste of the august chatelaine in itswell-known refinement. One of the most magnificent fea-tures of the building is the peristyle into which the Em-
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Archduke Albrecht, Maria Josephine and Charles Francis Joseph. Brother of the Emperor—his wife and child. 512 WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. presss rooms open. It is supported by twelve marble col-umns, in front of which are placed marble statues broughtfrom Rome, while the walls are painted by Paliotti and Pas-tiglione with scenes from ancient Greek mythology andromance as described by Homer, yEsop and others. Themaqnificent terrace, with its marble balustrade, commands a

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