Sicily: a place where different cultures could meet, clash, and influence each other.
Sicily: a place where different cultures could meet, clash, and influence each other.
Sicily: a place where different cultures could meet, clash, and influence each other.
Byzantine Mosaics in Norman Sicily
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Byzantine Mosaics in Norman Sicily
Sicily has played an absolutely central role in the age-old history of the Mediterranean, offering itself as a center-stage for the development of some of the greatest civilizations of both the ancient and medieval worlds.
With deep ties during antiquity to the culture of Greece, which had some of its most prosperous colonies on the island, Sicily became during the high Middle Ages a place where different cultures could meet, clash, and influence each other. These were first ancient Rome, then the Greco-Byzantine, and finally Islam.
Contents
- Byzantines, Arabs, And Normansin Sicily
- A Brief History Of A Bygone Day
- Byzantine Artin Norman Sicily
- From Arab Capital To Norman Capital
- Palermo
The Palazzo Dei Normanni
The Cappella Palatina
Santa Maria Dell’ammiraglio - Cefalù
The Golden Rays Of Byzantium
The Cathedral And The Magnificent Christ Pantocrator - Monreale
The Marvellous Cathedral
Description of the work
- Text by Adele Cilento
- Size 21,5x25,5 cm
- 208 pages
- 350 illustrations
- Hard cover
Volume datasheet
 | Byzantine Mosaics in Norman Sicily |
A brief history of a bygone day
Byzantine domination was a crucial period in the history of Sicily, from both an artistic and a purely cultural point of view, as the superb remains that have survived the passage of time continue to show. A brief historical introduction about Byzantine, Arab and Norman domination and the spread of Byzantine art in Sicily is followed by three chapters dedicated to the greatest examples of Byzantine influence in Palermo, Cefalù and Monreale.
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