Bestiary Ceiling

Bestiary ceiling, Metz, France, (1928). '13th Century...Detail of a painted ceiling...from a building in the Poncelet Strasse...now in the Metz Town Museum [Musée de La Cour d'Or]...one of the oldest painted ceilings preserved or known at the present time'. The house belonged to the chapter of the collegiate church of Notre-Dame-la-Ronde. After R. Borrmann. Plate LXVII, fig 143, 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)