Artesonado is "a type of intricately joined wooden ceiling in which supplementary laths are interlaced into the rafters supporting the roof to form decorative geometric patterns." These astounding ceilings and their culture heritage which date back to the Middle Ages and Renaissance eras is one of many cultural hallmarks left by Islamic Spain which migrated to the Americas with Spanish and Portuguese colonization.

Definition: Maldonado, Basilio Pavón, "Artesonado", Grove Art Online.

Image: Templo de San Miguel Arcángel of Sucre, Bolivia.

Source: Soy Sucre Bolivia.

San Miguel Chapel located in Santa Fe, New Mexico with a more rustic artesonado for a celing. San Miguel is the oldest church still standing in the Southwestern community.

Map of the Economy of Al-Andalus between the 10th and 12th centuries. Source: Instituto de Estadistica y Cartografía de Andalucía.