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A ceiling is the overhead surface or surfaces over a area, and the underside of a floor or a roof. Ceilings are often utilized to cover floor and roof construction. They have been favoured places for decorating from the earliest periods: either by coating the plain surface, in bringing out the structural members of roof or floor, or in dedicating it as an area for an allover pattern of relief.

Only a little is understood of ancient Greek ceilings, but Roman ceilings were rich with relief and painting, as is found in the vault soffits of Pompeian baths. In the Gothic period, the general tendency to bring out structural areas decoratively then gave rise to the development of the beamed ceiling, in which large cross-girders support smaller floor beams at right angles to them, beams and girders being richly chamfered and molded and commonly painted in bright colours.

In the Renaissance, ceiling design was progressed to its highest point of individuality and variety. Three types were further elaborated. The first was the coffered ceiling, in the delicate design of which the Italian Renaissance architects far emulated their Roman prototypes. Circular, square, octagonal, and L-shaped coffers were popular, with their edges delicately carved and the field of each coffer marked with a rosette. The second type consisted of ceilings largely or in parts vaulted, generally with arched intersections, with painted bands bringing out the architectural design and with pictures filling the rest of the area. The loggia of the Farnesina villa in Rome, decorated by Raphael and Giulio Romano, is a prime demonstration of this. In the Baroque period, mystical figures in heavy relief, scrolls, cartouches, and garlands were also brought in to decorate ceilings of this type. The Pitti Palace in Florence and many French ceilings in the Louis XIV style show this. In the third kind, which was especially found of Venice, the ceiling became a single framed picture, as seen in the Doges’ Palace.

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

Other architects, bringing out the aesthetic of the exposed structural system, delight in showcasing the mechanical and electrical equipment. Due to this trend, many structural systems have been developed that have a deliberately expressive power in themselves and make for desirable ceilings.

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