(mainly transmitted bymeans of imported rugs, ivories and other smallerobjects) derived from Persian (Sassanian) art viaSyria and the Byzantine Empire, and used up byWestern and notably Apulian sculptors in newcombinations. The wild beasts forming thebase are quite Apulian in style. All points to… … CAPPELLA PALATINA, PALERMO 1). l6g THE CAPPELLA PALATINA Sicilian. Figure sculpture had not thriven underthe rule of either Saracen princes or Greek clerics.When the Latin clergy came (principally, be itnoted, from the domains of the Norman rulers onthe mainland, and only exceptionally from the…
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