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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.

The Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles features gilded statues, ornate chandeliers, arched mirrors, and a painted vaulted ceiling, with sunlight streaming through tall windows.

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.

Ornate wooden hammer-beam roof of the Tudor Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace, with arched beams, carved details, and stained glass windows along the walls.

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