Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 134
ed or deeply coffered and enrichedwith carved rosettes, with sculptured heads or other de-vices, or more rarely with paintings. In all the earlierceilings, and generally throughout the Quattrocento,the paneling or coffering was upon the simplest possiblegeometric scheme. Thus in the Hall of the Two… … Fig. 61.—Ceiling Detail, Church at Bironico. dred in the Palazzo Vecchio, and in the Riccardi Palace,both in Florence, as also in the ceiling in Fig. 61 fromthe parish church at Bironico, we have ceilings of uni-form square coffers; in Fig. 62 and Figure 13 thecofferings are also composed of…
Decoration and ornament
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