Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 432
S IN THE CHEISTIAN EAST 40; by Roger II and consecrated in a. d. 1140, though the decoration of the interiorwas not completed until about 1160, in the reign of William I, when the naveand aisles received their decoration. The effect produced by this church is oneof extraordinary magnificence,… … Fig. 238. Mosaics of the twelfth century, Martorana, Palermo.(Hautes Etudes : G. Millet.) P. 410. monsters, and the oriental character of many details hardly detract from theharmony of a whole, the dominant note of which is splendour. No less thana hundred and thirty-four mosaic pictures, a hundred…
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