Bossert Gallery

Painted wooden ceiling in St. Martins Church, Zillis, Switzerland, (1928). Creator: Unknown

Painted wooden ceiling in St. Martin's Church, Zillis, Switzerland, (1928). 2nd Half of 12th Century...Detail of a painted wooden ceiling in St. Martin's at Zillis (Grisons). The wooden ceiling is divided into 153 square compartments in which, besides symbolical and fabulous monsters, scenes from the Gospel are also represented, as well as the Evangelists'. After R. Borrmann. Plate LVIII, fig 128, 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]

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Mural painting in Wienhausen Abbey, Lower Saxony, Germany, (1928). Creator: Unknown

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]

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Knights Hall in the Gothic Style, Leipzig, Germany, (1928). Creator: Unknown

Knights Hall in the Gothic Style, Leipzig, Germany, (1928). 1797...Rittersaal im gotischen Geschmack ("Knights Hall in the Gothic Style")...Helmets with plumes (these may be coloured and thus produce a pleasant play of colours), armour with coloured sashes, lances, swords, battle-axes placed one over the other, trumpets and heraldic insignia should alternate on the panels as shown in our illustration. The superporte shows a knight and his lady with the arms on the right and left of two ancient aristocratic families united by their marriage. The beams of the ceiling, profiled like an old shield, can be seen in their cross-sections (black) in the band ornament below the ceiling'. Plate CXI, fig 208, 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]

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