Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Visual Works (hierarchy name)
5. visual works (works)
6. [visual works by material or technique]
7. paintings (visual works)
8. [paintings by form]
9. panel paintings (paintings by form)

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Components
4. components
5. components by specific context
6. architectural elements
7. structural elements and components for structural elements
8. structural elements
9. enclosing structural elements
10. walls and wall components
11. wall components
12. wall components by form or function
13. interior wall components

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to distinctive painted wall panels, generally those from 15th- and 16th-century Italy. They were typically installed in a frieze above the wooden cornice molding, forming a separate register between the wooden paneling and the bare wall just below the ceiling. Today, they have often been removed from their original location, and are recognized by their long, narrow proportions. They are distinguished from "spalliere (paintings)," which were installed lower on the wall, just above chests or benches. Since the original context of the setting is lost once the panel has been removed from the wall, the term "spalliere" may be applied to both.