Baroque Palace Interiors: Top Photos

Gilded halls where Europe's monarchs turned spectacle into statecraft

THE QUEEN’S GRAND APARTMENT Overlooking the Parterre du Midi, the Queen’s Grand Apartment is symmetrical with the King’s Grand Apartment. But unlike the sovereign who, from the reign of Louis XIV, gav
The Queen's Grand Apartment overlooks the Parterre du Midi and is laid out symmetrically with the King's Grand Apartment. © Jorge Láscar from Melbourne, Australia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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