Ceiling Design, plate 39 from "Curieuses recherches de plusieurs beaus morceaus d'ornemens antiques et modernes..."

Ceiling Design, plate 40 from "Curieuses recherches de plusieurs beaus morceaus d'ornemens antiques et modernes..."

Attributed to Jacques LePautre, After Adam Philippon

Ceiling Ornament, nos. CCCXXII–CCCXXVI, plate 50 from "Designs for Various Ornaments"

Michelangelo Pergolesi

Ornamental Panel

Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi), After Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Ornamental Panel

Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi), Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Medea Kills Her Two Children by Jason (Pour qui d'Absyrte a le sang repandu, fait que du sien le tort lui soit rendu...), from "Jason and the Golden Fleece"

René Boyvin, After Leonard Thiry

Torture of Prometheus set within a cornice

Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)

Spring (Primavera) represented as a woman bearing a billowing drape and garlands, a spandrel-shaped composition from "The Four Seasons"

Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia), After Taddeo Zuccaro

Ceiling Design with Neptune in Corner

Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

Drawing Showing Two Alternate Designs for a Cove Decoration

Anonymous, Italian, Roman-Bolognese, 17th century

Salon Ceiling, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Isaac Ware

Cabinet de Mr le Compte Bielinski, from "Oeuvres de Juste Aurelle Meissonnier"

Juste Aurèle Meissonnier, Pierre Chenu, Gabriel Huquier

Autumn (Autumnus), represented as a seated male figure bearing grapes in his right hand and a lidded vessel in his left hand, with a billowing drape and grape wreath, a spandrel-shaped composition from "The Four Seasons"

Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia), After Taddeo Zuccaro