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 109
d basilica ofwhich the high transept andthe three deep apseswhich open from it inthe line of nave andaisles have the charac-teristic disposition of theNorman Sicilian cathe-drals. A reminder of the Saracen influence still remains in theslightly horseshoe form of the nave arches. Of the great… … Palermo. Cappella Palatina. 1 Hittorff, p. 43, pis. 44-47 ; Serradifalco, pis. 15-17; Mothes, p. 540. ^ Gaily Knig-ht says the cathedral of Messina was founded by Count Roger in 1098,and left unfinished until 1130, when King Roger completed it. Normans in Sicily,pp. 116-119. SICILIAN ARCHITECTURE…
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