2-750-458 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mural painting in the apse of the church of S. Maria in Pallara (or S. Sebastiano al Palatino), Rome, Italy, (1928). 'Date: 973-977 and end of 11th to beginning of 12th century. Above: Christ, on left SS. Sebastian and Laurentius, right, SS. Zoticus and Stephen. Below: a frieze with the Lamb and 12 sheep; underneath an inscription in which a philosopher and a surgeon named Peter are mentioned as founders. Underneath frieze Mary with 4 female martyrs (Caecilia?, Lucia, Agnes, Catherine). At the feet of Mary half-figures of SS. Benedict, Sebastian and Zoticus...Peter, the surgeon, died between 973 and 999'. After Joseph Wilpert. Plate L, fig 109, 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]