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A coffer in architecture is a series of sunken panels in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or vault. A series of these sunken panels was often used as decoration for a
Coffering on the ceiling of the Pantheon (Rome), 126 AD
Gothic coffered ceiling with carved human heads at Wawel Castle (Kraków)
Arch of Titus, Rome (ca. 81 AD)
15th-century Perpendicular Gothic coffers in St Cuthbert's Church, Wells, Somerset (1470)
Pantheon, Rome
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The Pantheon is an ancient temple in Rome, Italy, originally built under emperor Augustus and reconstructed under Hadrian; since AD 609, it is a Catholic church called the Basilica of St. Mary and the
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…Roman times. A prominent example of Roman coffering, employed to lighten the weight of the dome, can be found in the ceiling of the rotunda dome in the Pantheon, Rome. Experimentation with the possible shapes in coffering, which solve problems of mathematical tiling, or tessellation, were a feature of Islamic as well…
Façade of the Pantheon
Roma Pantheon 001
The interior of the Pantheon
The inscription at the entrance of the Pantheon reads, in Latin: M⸱AGRIPPA⸱L⸱F⸱COS⸱TERTIVM⸱FECIT