A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance (1901)
Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905 · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company · leaf 112
nfinished until 1130, when King Roger completed it, Normans in Sicily,pp. 110-11 a SICILIAN ARCHITECTURE 95 The cathedral of Cefalu is one of the many mediaeval churcheswhose origin is credited by tradition to the pious gratitude of theirfounders. King Roger, so the story runs, returning in 1131… … Fig. 302. Palermo. Cappella Palatina. 96 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY and the apostles. He landed at Cefalii, and began at once thebuilding of the cathedral. In size it is not a church of the firstclass, its total length being about 217 feet, as comjiared with 300feet at Messina, and 260 at Monreale. But…
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