Baroque Palace Interiors: Top Photos

Gilded halls where Europe's monarchs turned spectacle into statecraft

Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) in the Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France.
The Hall of Mirrors: 73 meters of gilded bronze and mirrored arches built to make foreign ambassadors feel small. It still works. © Myrabella, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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