ion, coming at the right moment, of productsof superior craftsmanship and fascinating sugges-tiveness. There are in Apulian art unmistakablesigns of Lombard influence, and almost directevidence of the direct copying of Byzantine carvingsin ivory, of which the carved lintel at the Martoranain… … Cnipi^ Taorinina CAPITALS, CLOISTER, MONREALE /■ 225 THE CLOISTER OF MONREALE o theory of influence can take away from theoriginality, the true Romanesque audacity andsense of form of Apulian sculpture. Is it to bewondered at that the art-loving Norman kings,the rulers of Trani and Bari, should…
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