Royal Palaces

Fülszöveg

Built to astonish the masses and to celebrate the
magnificence of the most powerful families in the world,
royal palaces and houses are the reminders of a bygone
era. It was an age in which the splendor of a prince or
people could be measured by the decor of a salon, the
grandeur of a building, or the originality of a fountain.
Suspended between earth and sky in the Far East, or
solidly rooted in the ground of Europe, the house of a
monarch has always been the meeting of two minds. To
the owner, the house represents an expression of opulence
and power; to the architect and teams of craftsmen who
build it, the structure is less a house than a noble
monument and a work of art. Add to the fabulous design
the works of the finest painters and sculptors of the era,
and the house becomes a living museum of art.
And yet, these residences were also places to live, and
they still preserve the traces of the most important people
in history. In the salons of Fontainebleau,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Built to astonish the masses and to celebrate the
magnificence of the most powerful families in the world,
royal palaces and houses are the reminders of a bygone
era. It was an age in which the splendor of a prince or
people could be measured by the decor of a salon, the
grandeur of a building, or the originality of a fountain.
Suspended between earth and sky in the Far East, or
solidly rooted in the ground of Europe, the house of a
monarch has always been the meeting of two minds. To
the owner, the house represents an expression of opulence
and power; to the architect and teams of craftsmen who
build it, the structure is less a house than a noble
monument and a work of art. Add to the fabulous design
the works of the finest painters and sculptors of the era,
and the house becomes a living museum of art.
And yet, these residences were also places to live, and
they still preserve the traces of the most important people
in history. In the salons of Fontainebleau, the corridors
of Buckingham Palace, the courtyards of the Royal Palace
of Bangkok, the gardens of Topkapi Palace, the most
famous rulers made crucial decisions, loved, and lived.
This book tells of the mysteries and legends of the
buildings and the official and secret versions of the
history of their occupants. The text is complemented by a
series of splendid photographs that together transport the
reader on a visit to a place where the lives of royal
families and their courts burned bright, and where beauty
was mixed with power, the Royal Palaces. Vissza