Talk:Amalienborg Palace
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[edit] Response to question about Frederik VIII's Palace restoration
User:Ghirlandajo, you ask in-line comment about current restoration ("restored after what?"). Answer: All of the palaces in the complex have been periodically "restored/renovated/remodelled" since they were first built and used as residences, especially before being used for a new purpose-- in this case, after its use as the home of Queen Dowager Ingrid and before its use as the home of the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess. Perhaps "restored" is not the right word-- feel free to substitute a different one. --SFDan 08:12, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
- Well, perhaps "renovated" is a better word. Can you explan this enigmatic sentence too: "The second Amalienborg was built by Frederik IV at the beginning of his reign. No palace was built; however, there was built a summerhouse". This is really puzzling. --Ghirla -трёп- 08:21, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
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- Well, yes I can (as it was I that wrote it in the first place). After the burning down of the first palace on the site 1689, the site was left as it was for some time and then the existing structures were razed. Finally when construction began, no "palace" (i.e. no solid, substantial, year-round-type structure) was built on the site. Instead a more "light-weight" building was put on the site which functioned essentially as a summerhouse or pleasure house. It was obviously somewhat substantial, as it lasted for some time, had an upper floor and pavillions. But that still did not make it a "palace", by at least the standards of that day. I will admit that I had a paucity of information about that second Amalienborg.
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- Also, I corrected some vandalism about the "Christian VII's Palace", where someone had changed the dates for the structure and its inhabitation, leading you to be confused about its being a Rococo structure, and exclaiming "Rococo in 1804? You are kidding!". Change that to Rococo in 1754, and the end of Nicolai Eigtved's career (the stubborn Rococo advocate)-- and then, no I'm not kidding. It was Eigtved's creation, he died in 1754, and he was Denmark's leading Rococco architect. --SFDan 14:19, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Picture
The first picture on the page, Amalienborg seen from..., should have an explanatory addition: "The domed structure in the centre is the Fredericks Church and not part of the palace."
[edit] The palaces
It says in the text, that Amalienborg is divided in four palaces. Actually, Amalienborg is one palace with four mansions.
