Lang Lang is named heir to the Sun King

John Borstlap says:

Velasquez, Bernini, the majority of Vienna’s central area, the (very strict and bare) façade of the Louvre, all the work of Palladio, the Trevi Fountain, St Peters and St Giovanni in Laterano in Rome, the many palaces spread throughout Europe, the counter-reformation churches, not to mention the baroque music repertoire including Bach and Handel, etc. etc. etc. all ‘over-decorated, empty and hubristic entertainment, whose sole purpose was the glorification of its worldly owner’.

Versailles was to be the symbol of France, and since Louis XIV himself was the symbol of France, the two symbols were identified as one. Also, if you look at the original designs – without the later 18C interior decorations – you see that the decoration was rich indeed, but in the same time, strictly organized and harmonious, disciplined. Not a matter of taste but of observation. The exterior is even rather forbidding in its symmetry. The chapel is a masterpiece of proportion and nobility – also very, very disciplined. The author of the quoted sentence had no clue about art and certainly not about baroque art.