Coffer: a sunken panel in a ceiling, dome, soffit or vault
Caisson: an alternative name for a coffer ...
Coffered Ceiling
A suspended ceiling made of a series of "coffers"—or open rectangular boxes—common to both Japanese and Western architecture.
Fusuma ...
Coffer - decorative sunken panel in a ceiling or dome.
Colonnade - series of columns set at regular intervals.
Column - cylindrical support consisting of base, shaft and capital.
Coffered Ceiling
A ceiling in which the beams and cross-beams leave a regular pattern of square or multi-sided sunken panels, or coffers, each of which is often decorated with molded, carved and painted decoration.
Colonnade ...
Coffers: the recessed elements of a monumental ceiling or vault, e.g., the Pantheon or the Basilica Maxentius
Dentils: decorative motif of rectangular blocks in the bed-mold of a cornice ...
Coffer - a sunken panel in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon that serves as a decorative device, usually in a ceiling or vault.
Colonnade - A long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often free-standing.
Coffering - Decoration of a ceiling, a vault, or an arch soffit, consisting of sunken square or polygonal ornamental panels.
Coffer - San Lorenzo - Florence
Colonnade - A row of columns carrying an entablature or arches.
coffer A recessed decorative panel in a ceiling, vault, or dome. Such a boring word, really. see lacunar
corbel A kind of bracket composed of a single projecting block, or of several graduated projecting courses of masonry, providing a ledge.
Coffering
Recessed panels, square or polygonal, that ornament a vault, ceiling, or the underside (soffit) of an arch. Image courtesy of Gretchen Ranger ...
coffering: sunken square or polygonal panels in ceilings, vaults and in the soffits of arches.
colonnade: a row of columns.
colonnette: a small column.
coffer - an ornamental sunken panel, especially in a ceiling. Used to save weight on domed ceilings in ancient architecture.
COFFERING
Arrangement of sunken panels (coffers), square or polygonal, decorating a ceiling, vault, or arch.
COLLONADE
Range of columns supporting an entablature.
Coffered (Caissoned) ceiling. Square or polygonal panels set into a ceiling and often decorated with ornamental motifs.
coffer
The sunken area created between the crossing of structural members. Coffers often appear in a flat ceiling or on the interior surface of a dome. They are often the focus of decoration and serve also to lighten the weight of the structure.
Coffer:
A multi-functional traveling chest with handles and a domed lid but without feet, usually made of oak.
Column Figure: ...
Coffer
A rectangular or square recessed area in a ceiling. Sometimes these emphasize the roof beams; other times they are carved, molded, or ornately decorated.
Château de Chambord - France (1518) ...
Coffer / Caisson
- sunken panels in a ceiling formed by ribs or beams and cross bracing. Looks like a lot of upturned empty boxes.
Sometimes referred to as a caisson.
Coffer - An inset decoration in a ceiling, vault, or dome. They range from the undecorative types such as in the inner dome of the Pantheon, to more ornate ones decorated with moldings and rosettes.
Coffer - a coffer, in architecture, is a sunken panel in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon that serves as a decorative device, usually in a ceiling or vault. Also called caissons, or lacunar.[1] ...
Coffer: (1) A trench in the bottom of a dry ditch which was used for drainage.(2) A work similar to a caponier which traverses a dry ditch, provided with a parapet with embrasures, used by the besieged to dispute the passage of the ditch by the enemy.
COFFERED PANEL: a sunk panel, as used particularly in carpentry (cf. FIELDED). COFFERING: an arrangement of sunken panels decorating a vault or arch soffit.
coffer one of a series of recessed panels in a ceiling, usually done in plaster. colonnade a series of columns set at regular intervals, usually supporting the base of a roof structure.
vault, or wagon vault, base, basement, bay window, bead, beak, bed moulding, belfry, bezant, bezzant, or byzant, billet, binder, bolection or bilection, bottom house, bow, bow window, bracket, brattishing, breast, broach, buttress, caisson, coffer, ...
Coffer - Decorative recessed panel in a ceiling.
Collar - Horizontal beam in a timber roof linking the rafters and so forming an A shaped truss.
Colonnade - A range of columns placed at regular intervals: a similar row, as of trees.
In French there are two words arche, one meaning a chest or coffer, from Latin area (arcere, to keep close), hence the English "ark"; the other meaning a vaulted arch, such as that of a bridge, and derived from a Low Latin corruption of arcus, ...
In San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (1638-1641; façade completed 1667) he distorted the dome, on pendentives, into a coffered ellipse to stretch the space on a longitudinal axis; the entire façade appears to undulate.
Coffered ceilings with elaborate figural paintings
Wood-paneled interior walls with classical murals ...
This reflects, in part, the effort to construct large, complex buildings anew, motivated by the political and religious goals of the period and bolstered by full coffers, ...
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