2-751-309 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Painted wooden ceiling in St. Martin's Church, Zillis, Switzerland, (1928). '2nd Half of 12th Century...Detail of a painted wooden ceiling in St. Martin's at Zillis (Grisons). The wooden ceiling is divided into 153 square compartments in which, besides symbolical and fabulous monsters, scenes from the Gospel are also represented, as well as the Evangelists'. After R. Borrmann. Plate LVIII, fig 128, 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]