2-751-314 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Painted decoration in the nave of St Severus' Church at Boppard, Germany, (1928). '2nd Quarter of 13th Century...Animal frieze and arcade painting from the N. side of the nave..."The Church at Boppard may be regarded as one of the best examples of Late Romanesque decorative painting in Germany with its connection between figural and ornamental decorations and their harmonious blending with the architecture, the chief members of which they emphasize".' After P. Clemen. Plate LX, fig 132, 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]