2-750-462 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Detail of mural paintings in the Church of St. George, Oberzell, Reichenau, Germany, (1928). Top left and right '...ornament bands framing or separating the chief paintings in the nave'; bottom left: 'remnants of a mural painting in the eastern choir arch'; bottom right: 'painted capital', all dating from c1000 AD. After R. Borrmann. Plate LII, figs 111, 112, 115 and 116, 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]