2-750-466 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Detail of frieze from the Basilica of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy, (1928). 'About 1145...Ornamental frieze and medallions with Old Testament Patriarchs (Adam and Seth)...The frieze was under the roof of the basilica; the medallions were under it'. After J. Wilpert. Plate LIII, fig 121, 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]