Early renaissance architecture in England; a historical & descriptive account of the Tudor, Elizabethan & Jacobean periods, 1500-1625, for the use of students and others (1901)
Gotch, J. Alfred (John Alfred), 1852-1942 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 348
proportion is so carefully managed that the shape of the panels,which is the foundation of the design, is not obscured by thepatterns which occupy them. The effect is equally rich in both,although the width of the rib and the manner of its decorationare varied. These ceilings are fairly late in… … 166.—Ceiling in Gate-house, Haddon Hall, Derbyshire. of the formal kind is at Benthall Hall (Fig. 165), where themain panels are all of oblong rectangular shape, and are filledwith strap-work enrichment surrounding an elliptical boss.The patterns are varied in every case, and exhibit…
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