Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)
Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University Press · leaf 489
ected by the road that leads straight as anarrow to the city and through the Porta Nuova to thesea, William II reared the great church and conventwhich were the crowning wonder of Sicilian architecture. Legendary The story goes that he was warned in a dream bythe Virgin Mary to build a church in… … ^ ^ MONREALE CATHEDRAL CH. XXIX] SICILY 283 his avaricious father. The work was begun in 1172, Monreaieand in 1176, though the church was still unfinished, thefirst monks and the Abbot Theobald from the Bene-dictine abbey of La Cava were installed in the newconvent. The church is a basilica (Fig.…
Architecture, Gothic
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