Decoration in the Borgia Apartments, Apostolic Palace, the Vatican, Rome, Italy, (1928). Zodiac symbols: 'About in the "Sala detta dei santi Pontefici" [Hall of the Pontiffs]. After a water-colour by Bonk (c1845). Plate LXXXVI, fig 176, 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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