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A ceiling is the overhead surface or surfaces over a space, and the underside of a floor or a roof. Ceilings are widely used to hide floor and roof construction. They have been special points for decor from the earliest times: either by coating the flat surface, in featuring the structural members of roof or floor, or in treating it as a field for an overall pattern of relief.

Little is proved of ancient Greek ceilings, but Roman ceilings were rich with relief and painting, as is found in the vault soffits of Pompeian baths. During the Gothic period, the widespread tendency to use structural parts decoratively then adapted to the creation of the beamed ceiling, for which huge cross-girders support smaller floor beams at right angles to them, beams and girders being strongly chamfered and molded and usually painted in decorative colours.

In the Renaissance, ceiling design was moved to its highest pitch of uniqueness and differentiation. Three forms were elaborated. The first was the coffered ceiling, in the intricate design of which the Italian Renaissance architects far outdid their Roman prototypes. Circular, square, octagonal, and L-shaped coffers abounded, with their edges ornately carved and the field of each coffer flourished with a rosette. The second type consisted of ceilings largely or somewhat vaulted, often with arched intersections, with painted bands showcasing the architectural design and with pictures filling the remainder of the area. The loggia of the Farnesina villa in Rome, decorated by Raphael and Giulio Romano, is a great demonstration of this. In the Baroque period, amazing figures in heavy relief, scrolls, cartouches, and garlands were also utilized 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 form, which was particularly coined of Venice, the ceiling became one sizeable framed picture, as seen in the Doges’ Palace.

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

Other architects, featuring the aesthetic of the exposed structural system, delight in showcasing the mechanical and electrical equipment. In response to this design, some structural systems have been put in place that have a deliberate power in themselves and become admirable ceilings.

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