Barth also mentions, by the way, the characteristic wall-paintings of Italy that rest on the old Roman tradition and yet serve as tavern signs, like the “Three Madonnas” of the Porta Pincia in Rome: “A portal decorated with three pictures of the Mother of God leads into the green garden court.”
Lest the thought of a religious painting serving as a tavern sign should shock any of our readers, we hasten to turn to the study of religious hospitality and its emblems.
Lamm Erlenbach, Württemberg
[CHAPTER III]
ECCLESIASTICAL HOSPITALITY AND ITS SIGNS
“Use hospitality one to another without grudging.”