Baroque Palace Interiors: Top Photos

Gilded halls where Europe's monarchs turned spectacle into statecraft

a corner of the ceiling of the "Salon de la Guerre" ("Room of the War") in the Palace of Versailles
The Salon de la Guerre ceiling — French Baroque imposed order on extravagance. Every surface reinforced the same message: the king was the sun, and everything orbited him. Jebulon, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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