2-751-328 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Decoration in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, Italy, (1928). 'About 1290...half-length picture of a prophet...there is documentary evidence that Nicholas IV. renovated most of the paintings in the church and gave the work to Magister Jacopo Torriti and his assistant Jacopo da Camerino'. After J. Wilpert. Plate LXVI, fig 142, 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]