2-756-587 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Italian Renaissance ceiling painting, (1898). 'Figs 1-4: From the choir-arch in S. Maria del Popolo at Rome, (by Pinturicchio.) Fig 5: From one of the Borgia chambers in the Vatican at Rome. Figs 6 and 9: Patterns from the arch-panels in the Certosa near Pavia. Figs 7 and 10: Borders round these panels. Figs 11 and 12: medallions from the arch-panels in S. Francesco at Lodi...With the ceilings of churches and palaces, whether arched or horizontal wood-ceilings, a rich field of activity was opened to the genius of artists'. Plate 49 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]