{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/201/2010551.htm","path":"chr/ecf/201/2010551.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/201/2010551.htm","text":"Chapter XXXII.\u2014That he instructed the Governors concerning the Beautifying of the Roof; also concerning Workmen, and Materials.\n\u201cWith respect to the ceiling 3264 of the church, p. 529 I wish to know from you whether in your judgment it should be panel-ceiled, 3265 or finished with any other kind of workmanship. If the panel ceiling be adopted, it may also be ornamented with gold. For the rest, your Holiness will give information as early as possible to the before-mentioned magistrates how many laborers and artificers, and what expenditure of money is required. You will also be careful to send us a report without delay, not only respecting the marbles and columns, but the paneled ceiling also, should this appear to you to be the most beautiful form. God preserve you, beloved brother!\u201d\nThe word used is the technical \u201ccamera,\u201d meaning properly a certain style of vaulted ceiling, but here it is perhaps the generic ceiling if the specific word below means panel ceiling.\n529:3265\nThis is the word for the Lacunaria or panel ceilings, a style of ceiling where \u201cplanks were placed across these beams at certain intervals leaving hollow spaces\u201d \u201cwhich were frequently covered with gold and ivory and sometimes with paintings.\u201d Compare article Domus, in Smith, Dict. Gr. and Rom. Ant. The passage may mean either \u201cwith respect to the ceiling\u2026whether\u2026wainscoted\u201d or \u201cwith respect to the Camera\u2026whether panel ceiled.\u201d","title":"Nicene and Ante-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol I: The Life ...","type":"page"}