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A ceiling is the overhead surface or surfaces above a space, and the underside of a floor or a roof. Ceilings are widely placed to cover floor and roof construction. They have been favoured places for decorating from the earliest times: either in painting the plain surface, by bringing out the structural members of roof or floor, or by commandeering it as a surface for an overall pattern of relief.

Only a little is proved of ancient Greek ceilings, but Roman ceilings were richly designed with relief as well as painting, as is found in the vault soffits of Pompeian baths. In the Gothic period, the widespread design to use structural parts decoratively then came to the creation of the beamed ceiling, in which huge cross-girders support smaller floor beams at right angles to them, beams and girders being thickly chamfered and molded and often painted in decorative colours.

During the Renaissance, ceiling design was developed to its highest tip of originality and differentiation. Three forms were further developed. The first was the coffered ceiling, in the delicate design of which the Italian Renaissance architects far bettered their Roman prototypes. Circular, square, octagonal, and L-shaped coffers were created, with their edges intricately carved and the field of every coffer flourished with a rosette. The second kind consisted of ceilings wholly or mostly vaulted, often with arched intersections, with painted bands highlighting the architectural design and with pictures filling the rest of the space. The loggia of the Farnesina villa in Rome, decorated by Raphael and Giulio Romano, is a good illustration of this. During the Baroque period, amazing figures in heavy relief, scrolls, cartouches, and garlands were also used to decorate ceilings of this form. The Pitti Palace in Florence and many French ceilings in the Louis XIV style demonstrate this. In the third type, which was especially coined of Venice, the ceiling became one large framed image, as seen in the Doges’ Palace.

In contemporary architecture ceilings are sometimes split into two major types — the suspended (or hung) ceiling and the exposed ceiling. With ceilings hung at some distance under the structural members, some architects have attempted to hide large amounts of mechanical and electrical equipment, such as electrical conduits, air-conditioning ducts, water pipes, sewage lines, and lighting fixtures. Many suspended ceilings have a lightweight metal grid suspended from the structure by wires or rods to hold up plasterboard sheets or acoustical tiles.

Other architects, emphasizing the aesthetic of the exposed structural system, take pleasure in showcasing the mechanical and electrical equipment. Due to this desire, many structural systems have been developed that have a deliberate power in themselves and become desirable ceilings.

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