2-751-330 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Painted wooden ceiling, Dädesjö Old Church, Småland, Sweden, (1928). Circular medallions depicting scenes from the Christmas evangelium telling the story of the birth of Christ 'like a kind of historical comic'. 'About 1300...Detail of a painted wooden ceiling...Above, Symbol of the Evangelist (Matthew) and a scene out of the life of Mary; below, the three Magi'. After E. Wrangel, O Rydbeck. Plate LXVIII, fig 145, 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]