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Library of Congress: ceiling of the Great Hall Figure 12: Ceiling design. (right) Simple, white paster ceiling, Christ Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota, designed by Eliel and Eero Saarinen, 1950. Hall of Mirrors The Long Gallery at Aston Hall, Birmingham, Eng., 1618, with paneled walls, tapestries, and intricately molded strapwork plaster ceilings characteristic of the most sumptuous Jacobean interiors. Figure 12: Ceiling design. (left) Highly ornate Rococo ceiling, Pilgrimage Church at Wies, Upper Bavaria (Germany) designed by Dominkus Zimmerman, 1745. Hampton Court
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Library of Congress: ceiling of the Great Hall
Figure 12: Ceiling design. (right) Simple, white paster ceiling, Christ Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota, designed by Eliel and Eero Saarinen, 1950.
Hall of Mirrors
The Long Gallery at Aston Hall, Birmingham, Eng., 1618, with paneled walls, tapestries, and intricately molded strapwork plaster ceilings characteristic of the most sumptuous Jacobean interiors.
Figure 12: Ceiling design. (left) Highly ornate Rococo ceiling, Pilgrimage Church at Wies, Upper Bavaria (Germany) designed by Dominkus Zimmerman, 1745.
Hampton Court
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