Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)
Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University Press · leaf 479
illiam I, ilMalo, has Palermo.an almost more Saracenic look than any other building ^ ^^^^^^^in Palermo (Fig. 215). It is a simple rectangle of a naveand aisles, ending eastwards in three apses of which onlythe central one shows outside (Fig. 216). The nave isdivided by cross arches into three… … squinch Fig. 215. The domes are carried by a curious sort of squinch acrossthe angles of the square, half a squinch and half a niche, Thea feature which occurs also at La Martorana, and at theCapella Palatina, and is the typical mode in Sicily ofbringing the square into an octagon, and so into a…
Architecture, Gothic
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