Peterhof: Picture Hall by Anita363

From <a href="http://www.ticketsofrussia.com/peterhof/museums/grpal/ind9.html" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.ticketsofrussia.com/peterhof/museums/grpal/ind9.html</a>: &quot;This room was the main interior in Peter's Upper Mansion .... In 1764 Jean-Baptiste Michel Vallin de la Mothe, using 368 female portraits painted by Pietro Rotari, covered the walls from top to bottom with canvases separated only by thin strips of gilded frame. The Italian Salon was then renamed the Rotari Gallery; the Picture, or Portrait Room; later it came to be known as the Room of Fashions and Graces, from the character of the models and the painter's manner of presenting them.... The Picture Hall, restored in 1964, is the compositional centre of the Great Palace. Two sets of apartments unfold from here: halls to the west, and drawing-rooms and private suites to the east.&quot;