Baroque Palace Interiors: Top Photos

Gilded halls where Europe's monarchs turned spectacle into statecraft

Ceiling of Salon de Vénus du Château de Versailles
The Salon de Vénus, one stop along the Grand Apartments' planetary sequence — each room dedicated to a celestial deity, designed to position the King's Bedchamber as the inevitable destination. © Livioandronico2013, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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