cently. The representations of archers, wild beasts, suchas real lions and spotted leopards, tame birds andluxuriant Asiatic trees belong to the same rangeof subjects as those in the Zisa, and seem to showin the naive arrangement in superposed zones,differing from the Byzantesque medallions of… … ARABO-NORMAN PALACES preserved there—such as these princely halls—thatis lost elsewhere. The room with pretty pointed arches openingout of this, now fitted up as an exceedingly uglydining-room or smoking-room with a skylightworthy of an English suburban vilkj was inNorman times a little court open…
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