2-750-442 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mural paintings in the ruins of the Monastery of St Apollo at Bawit, Egypt, (1928). '1st Half of 7th Century A.D...The painting is on the S. wall of chapel 18...whether the boy among the scattered flowers should be interpreted as a symbol or is merely a profane character is open to doubt'. After Jean Clédat. Plate XL, fig 93, 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]