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 110
nfinished until 1130, when King Roger completed it. Normans in Sicily,pp. 116-119. SICILIAN ARCHITECTURE 95 The cathedral o£ 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 compared with 300feet at Messina, and 260 at Monreale. But…
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