rch. The dome of the Favarah chapel is supportedon angle niches, the dome of the Zisa chapel on,as it were, a saddle of honeycomb brackets andsquinches of masonry, built out from the wall andthus ingeniously converting the oblong into anoctagon for supporting the dome. The little church of S.… … SAN GIOVANNI DEGLI EREMITI century only four now remain : Sant Antonio,now dressed up in queer Romantic trappings ;Santa Maria Maddalena, semi-ruined and bare ;and the two now so well-known churches of SanGiovanni degli Eremiti and San Cataldo, bothhardly recognisable among the debris of…
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