Detail of frieze from the Basilica of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy, (1928). 'About 1145...Ornamental frieze and medallions with Old Testament Patriarchs...The frieze was under the roof of the basilica; the medallions were under it'. After J. Wilpert. Plate LIII, figs 119 & 120, 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]
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