2-750-475 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Decoration in Stora Råda Old Church, Västra Götaland, Sweden, (1928). 'About 1500...Painting on the nave vault of the wooden church at Amnehaerads Roda...The gable beam of the nave is decorated with coffer-like ornament...from right to left...Below: St. Anne greeted by the angel (with Swedish words), Joachim meets Anne, the Angel appears to him while tending his herd (Swedish words); above: Adam and Eve receive clothes, a spade and a distaff; Adam delving and Eve spinning; between: two rows of fabulous creatures in medallions.' (The church was burnt down in 2001 - a reconstruction of the church, using medieval methods of construction, has been begun). After N. M. Mandelgren. Plate LXXVII, fig 163, 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]