Design for a ceiling-painting, Austria, (1928). 'Last Third of 17th Century...Egidius Schor, b. 1627 at Innsbruck, went to Rome about 1645 and returned in 1666 to Tyrol when he resided permanently at Innsbruck, interrupted, however, frequently by work in Austria and Bavaria. He died in 1701. A number of his decorative paintings are met with in Tyrolese churches, and numerous designs of decorative painting in the Innsbruck university library are attributed to him'. After an aquarelle pen-and-ink drawing. Plate XCIII, fig 186, 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]