The huge main ballroom area features the ornately detailed painted ceiling and floor-to-ceiling windows that look out to the a snowy landscape (complete with always-falling snow).
Among her most riveting achievements: the Jade Room, the seventh nizam's preferred place for afternoon tea, with its geometric parquet floor and matching painted ceiling, Deco furniture, and priceless jade artifacts.
On the white-painted ceiling high above I could see the brown stains where water had found its way in past winters through cracks in the nineteenth-century lead roof and had dripped into buckets and bowls hastily placed on the floor.
Sargent painted the ceiling of the rotunda in the old MFA as well as murals for the Boston Public Library.
The voting takes place inside the chapel, beneath the ornate ceiling painted by Michelangelo.
They sit expectantly under chandeliers, beneath a 1745 ceiling painted by Tiepolo.
It is hand-painted in the ceiling, carved in wooden doors and fashioned in the cast-iron latticework of the window guards.
Tourists and pilgrims are continuing to visit the Sistine Chapel -- famed for the ceiling painted by Michelangelo -- at the moment, Lombardi said.
The Sistine Chapel, whose famous ceiling was painted by Renaissance artist Michelangelo, has been closed to tourists while the preparations for the conclave are made.
Upstairs, Mr Cai has built a mini rollercoaster in a cavernous gallery, on whose ceiling is painted Mr Cai's history of Belgian art images from the city's famous Ghent altarpiece and iconic works by Magritte and Broodthaers.
The walls are painted police blue up to the wainscoting, and then white to the ceiling, which is painted black.
In the downstairs powder room artist Tracey Price painted a celestial scene on the ceiling and a French countryside wall mural.
It is an ancient-looking room, with a gleaming floor buffed by many feet for many years, its low willow-branch ceiling and beams brightly painted and hung with banners, the walls depicting floating Buddhas and snarling, dark-faced demons.
The stylized mural of the original high, arched, Fifth Avenue entrance, a geometric abstraction of industrial gears and wheels executed in gold and aluminum leaf, had been painted over and partly destroyed by a hung acrylic ceiling and fluorescent fixtures.
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Tourists and locals alike came to gawk at its Chinese antiques, hand-painted walls, and the intricately carved and gilded dragons in its lobby ceiling.
He painted the walls with a mixture of lime to retard crumbling and hung muslin on the ceiling to catch falling dirt, just as the settlers did.
Eventually, the Minotaur discovered that the ceiling was not the translucent blue plastic he had always assumed it was but blue-painted plaster, cracked and warped with age.
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