Palaces

• Author(s): David Ross,
• Publisher: MetroBooks
• Pages: 120
• ISBN_10: 1567994725
  ISBN_13: 9781567994728
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Architecture / Buildings / Residential , Architecture / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial , Architecture / Buildings / General ,

Description:... The world's most sumptuous palaces -- magnificent examples of grand architecture and interior opulence -- are examined in this gorgeously illustrated volume.

Considering palaces not only as beautiful buildings, but also as seats of power, this book examines edifices that were, and sometimes still are, homes and residences, but which may have become museums mausoleums, or even prisons