A detail of small figures on a wall painting from the
Church at Södra Råda in Sweden, 1323AD

Photo by Sven Rosborn.

Painting from 1323 in the church of South Råda, Värmland, Sweden, destroyed by fire in 2001.

Södra Råda kyrka was an early 14th-century timbered church in the parish of Södra Råda in Gullspång Municipality, Västra Götaland in Sweden. It was one of the oldest preserved wooden churches in the country. The paintings covering the walls and the trefoil-shaped wooden ceiling of the church were considered one of the best and best-preserved examples of Scandinavian wall-painting from the Middle Ages. The oldest, anonymous, paintings in the chancel dated to 1323. Later paintings in the nave dated from 1493 and were signed by a painter named Amund.