A wheel chandelier is a lighting installment, in the form of a chandelier hanging from the ceiling in the form of a spoked wheel. The oldest and most important examples derive from the Romanesque period.
Hezilo chandelier in Hildesheim Cathedral
Barbarossa chandelier in Aachen Cathedral
Hartwig's chandelier in Comburg
Electric wheel chandelier in St. Elisabeth Bonn
A chandelier is an ornamental lighting device, typically with spreading branched supports for multiple lights, designed to be hung from the ceiling. Chandeliers are often ornate, and they were originally designed to hold candles, but now incandescent light bulbs are commonly used, as well as fluorescent lamps and LEDs.
A chandelier in Italy
A silver chandelier c. 1690 from Hampton Court Palace
A Roman hanging lamp or chandelier
A 6th century Byzantine polycandelon