2-750-451 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Crypt of the Madonna' in the Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter on the Via Labicana, Rome, Italy, (1928). '1st Half of 3rd Century A.D...On the ceiling the Good Shepherd, 4 scenes from the life of Jonah, 4 departed in the act of praying, and 4 ornamental heads. On the front wall: Noah and Miracle of the Source. In the arch: Resurrection of Lazarus, the Miracle of the Loaves and departed in the act of praying. The semicircular picture: Homage of two Magi'. After Joseph Wilpert. Plate XLVI, fig 103, 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]