2-365-860 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'St Hilary', 1365-1367 (1955). Hilary (300-367) was bishop of Pictavium (Poitiers) and considered an eminent doctor of the Western Christian Church. Theodoric's magnum opus is a collection of panel and wall paintings of saints, prophets and angels, commissioned by King Charles IV of Bohemia for the Chapel of the Holy Cross at Karlstejn Castle. A print from Gothic Painting in Bohemia 1350-1450, by Antonin Matejcek and Jaroslav Pesina, Artia Prague, 1955.