dessus de cheminee

Isaac Kremer/ June 21, 2019/ / 0 comments

The space above a chimney piece treated architecturally, or filled with a painting or other work of art. This definition excludes the hood of a medieval chimney, and includes only the treatment of the flat piece of wall forming the front of the chimney breast, and usually applies only to a panel, canvas, or the like which fills but a small part of it… (Sturgis, 1900)