Decoration in Stora Råda Old Church, Västra Götaland, Sweden, (1928). 'About 1325...Painting on the northern choir wall in the wooden church at Amnehaerads Rada...The painting is on the horizontally-placed beams, one of the pictures is dated 1323. Above, prophets, in the middle apostles, below, scenes from the life of Mary.' (The church was burnt down in 2001 - a reconstruction of the church, using medieval methods of construction, has been begun). After N. M. Mandelgren. Plate LXIX, fig 146, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]
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