Aristocratic living in the Baroque period

The aristocratic life during the Baroque era has some common features in almost all of Europe and which can be summarized as follows:

The wide variety of residences in which the aristocrats lived during some periods of the year: palaces in the city, dwellings in their fiefs, villas in the countryside or in other holiday residences, dwellings in fiefs or other possessions.
The progressive centrality of the urban residence in the ‘capital’, which ensures constant proximity to the nerve centers of political, economic and religious power.
The dwelling more and more as a status symbol that should have, among its distinctive features, majesty, grandeur, serving as a form of representation, but which must also demonstrate attention to culture and art and the patronage of its owners. Each dwelling, therefore, must have reception halls and rooms for feasts, picture galleries with portraits of ancestors, chapels, art collections, stables and shelters for carriages, theaters, libraries and, outside, majestic portals surmounted by family coats of arms, balconies and windows, gardens and water effects, etc.

The different styles of houses correspond to the variety of buildings and the way in which aristocrats live within them.