Baroque Palace Interiors: Top Photos

Gilded halls where Europe's monarchs turned spectacle into statecraft

"Almighty God the Father", by Antoine Coypel, detail of the ceiling of the chapel of the Palace of Versailles, Yvelines, France.
Antoine Coypel's God the Father in the palace chapel — one of the few rooms at Versailles where the eye is directed upward toward something other than Louis himself. Jebulon, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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