Mural Painting In Wienhausen Abbey
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Mural Painting In Wienhausen Abbey
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Print Collector
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Drawing - Illustration
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Mural painting in Wienhausen Abbey, Lower Saxony, Germany, (1928). '1st Half of 14th Century...The frescos, which are painted on plaster, begin above the stall-work reaching to the height of the windows and cover all the surfaces including the vaulting. The lower strips represent scenes from the lives of the Saints (above all of the Patron Saints Laurentius and Alexander); then there are Biblical scenes (Creation of the Earth and Eve, etc.)'. After a water-colour by Ludger Schroer. Plate LXX, fig 147, 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]. Creator Unknown. (Photo by The Print Collector/Heritage Images via Getty Images)
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January 28th, 2021
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