Painted decoration in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, Italy, (1928). 'About sibyls; St. Gregory, on the choir by Bernardino Pinturicchio (1455-1513)...for Julius II. "He painted the four Fathers of the Church on the spandril of the vaulted ceiling, each one sitting in a niche framed by an great surface is divided like a carpet and each compartment is ornamented with a figure".' After L. Gruner. Plate LXXXIII, fig 171, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century&
Painted decoration in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, Italy, (1928). 'About sibyls; St. Gregory, on the choir by Bernardino Pinturicchio (1455-1513)...for Julius II. "He painted the four Fathers of the Church on the spandril of the vaulted ceiling, each one sitting in a niche framed by an great surface is divided like a carpet and each compartment is ornamented with a figure".' After L. Gruner. Plate LXXXIII, fig 171, 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]
Size: 3485px × 4762px
Photo credit: © The Print Collector / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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