nowlies neglected at the end of a tanners yard, and thedingy interior at first certainly seems rude enoughto suggest vaguely a kind of unadorned earlyprototype of the Cappella Palatina. But one sees atonce that it is a case of poverty and neglect, not otprimitive roughness ; most of the dirty grey… … S. GIOVANNI DEI LEPPROSI, PALERMO /■ 138 THE MARTORANA Corinthian derivatives, rather early and quaint intype with its circle of beads. One isolated earlycapital, however, is no help towards dating a build-ing from the early Middle Ages, when any capitalsfound were freely made use of (gilded).…
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