Coffer

A coffered ceiling (also coffered ceiling ) has box-shaped depressions (cassette ) on its underside in a regular arrangement. Such a ceiling is formed by intersecting ribs or beams. Preferred materials are traditionally wood, stone or stucco. But there are also illusionistic painting ( trompe l'oeil ) imitated coffered ceilings.

Coffered ceilings are found in the ancient porticoes and later in particular in buildings of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

Examples of coffered ceilings:

  • Pantheon ( Rome)
  • Diocletian's Palace, Split
  • Jever Castle
  • Leiben, Lower Austria
  • Hospital church yard
  • Golden Hall in Augsburg
  • The Zedernsaal in Fugger Castle Kirchheim / Schwaben
  • Palacio de los Zúñiga y Avellaneda in Penaranda de Duero, Spain
  • Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome
  • Church of San Paolo fuori le Mura
  • Cathedral of Pisa
  • Church of St. Martin in Zillis.
  • Parish Church of St Regina in Drensteinfurt
  • Heihsgut, Lungau Salzburg
  • Church Leubnitz - Neuostra, Dresden
  • Basilica of Constantine, Trier

The Church of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, Abertamy

Coffered ceiling, Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze

Building material Classical antiquity Pantheon, Rome Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence
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