2-750-460 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Painted wooden ceiling in the cathedral at Messina, Sicily, Italy, (1928). 'About 1150...Details of the painted wooden ceiling of the aisle...The building was commenced in 1098 and completed under Roger II. (1130 to 1154)'. After Matthieu-Prosper Morey. Plate LIV, fig 122, 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]