While I am not obsessed with chandeliers and the like, I noticed after getting home from visiting St. Pete (as I call it), how many pictures of chandeliers I took at The Hermitage (and of the ceilings). They are definitely elegant but their designs were not too stuffy. Not being a connoisseur, but still having opinions, I would say they were made to be interesting not over-bearing. (Click on the picture to see a larger version.)
Any experts out there who can enrich the readers??
[…] another post I shared pictures of the spectacular chandeliers. Here I would like to focus on the ceilings. I do not think I have seen ceilings like these in other European palaces, though perhaps […]