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Rick Steves' Europe
Art Bites 168: Royal Palaces of the Baroque Age and Versailles
Across Europe, royals used fabulous palaces and Baroque art to demonstrate how their power was divinely ordained. And Louis XIV’s Versailles — with its hall of mirrors, heavenly painted ceilings, and forever gardens — was the ultimate.
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