Ornamental frieze from the Basilica of St. Clement, Rome, Italy, (1928). 'About ;The frieze and plinth paintings belong to the most beautiful mediaeval pieces of enclosed by elegantly curved tendrils and alternate with foliage ornament. The plinth is divided into lozenge-shaped compartments by means of bands inter-secting at right compartments contain cut twigs with red and yellow apples. In four of them there are also golden pheasants, and in the central one a vase filled with fruit. The intersecting bands are undulating with rosettes,
Ornamental frieze from the Basilica of St. Clement, Rome, Italy, (1928). 'About ;The frieze and plinth paintings belong to the most beautiful mediaeval pieces of enclosed by elegantly curved tendrils and alternate with foliage ornament. The plinth is divided into lozenge-shaped compartments by means of bands inter-secting at right compartments contain cut twigs with red and yellow apples. In four of them there are also golden pheasants, and in the central one a vase filled with fruit. The intersecting bands are undulating with rosettes, bunches of pointed leaves and ; After J. Wilpert. Plate LIII, fig 118, 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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Photo credit: © The Print Collector / Alamy / Afripics
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