A Rose or Wheel Window

[Mark Knowles]

Mostly I was looking at real architecture (not architecture in manuscripts), but I did occasionally come across some interesting things in manuscripts, like this star-studded dome-within-a-rainbow edged by a double-infurled cloudband:




This is renovated, but possibly is fairly true to the original, but it is interesting because they were inspired by outdoor Gothic architecture to make indoor ceiling embellishments:



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If your suggestion is that the bottom centre rosette might represent a ceiling drawn from below then that is also my conclusion as I think I must have written on Nick's blog some time ago. Likewise I am inclined to the view that the top centre rosette also illustrates a ceiling drawn from below.