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Book 1997
The cultures of his kingdom
3 readers
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Architecture, Norman
- Art patronage
- Buildings, structures
- Cappella Palatina di Palermo
- Church architecture
- Church decoration and ornament
- Norman Architecture
- Church architecture, italy
This analytical study takes seriously the proposition that the royal chapel of the Norman kings of Sicily, the Cappella Palatina in Palermo, preserves virtually intact - and uniquely so - an ensemble of architecture and arts from the twelfth century.
It systematically investigates every major component of the decoration and furnishing of the chapel, and in so doing propounds a new chronology for the edifice, in phases, which fixes a new frame of reference for understanding how the chapel functioned under the Norman kings.
