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  2. Every Historical Home Needs This One Element - AOL

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    Ceiling medallions are, well, on the ceiling. And unless you’re eight feet tall, this project will require a ladder. Using a tall ladder without a spot or an extra pair of hands can be more ...

  3. Cappella Palatina - Wikipedia

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    The ceiling represents the relationship between Mediterranean and Islamic traditions through inscriptions, iconography, and geometry. [5] There are approximately 75 inscriptions serving as invocations of regal power. They are blessings of praise and good wishes for power, prosperity, goodness, health, and beyond.

  4. Sistine Chapel ceiling - Wikipedia

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    By contrast, if the ceiling's first register – with the nine scenes on rectangular fields, the medallions, and the ignudi – was painted in the first two years, and in the second phase, Michelangelo painted only their border in the second register with the Prophets and Sibyls, then the giornate finished in each year are divided almost ...

  5. Medallion (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Roman medallion or imago clipeata on the Arch of Augustus, Rimini, Italy, 27 BC. A medallion is a round or oval ornament [1] that frames a sculptural or pictorial decoration in any context, but typically a façade, an interior, a monument, or a piece of furniture or equipment.

  6. Cefalù Cathedral - Wikipedia

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    On the right wall, adjacent to the royal throne, are royal figures, while on the left side, adjacent the bishop's throne, are priestly figures. Each figure is accompanied by an inscription, in Greek or Latin, describing the character portrayed. The decoration of the cross-vaulted ceiling depicts four cherubim and four seraphim.

  7. Stirling Heads - Wikipedia

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    The Stirling Heads are a group of large oak portrait medallions made around the year 1540 to decorate the ceiling of a room at Stirling Castle. [1] The style, in origin, was based on Italian architectural decoration and at Stirling was probably derived from a French source. Similar medallions carved in stone adorn Falkland Palace. [2]

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