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 118
s and in the frieze of the transept.On the east end an intersecting arcade of black marble runs aroundall the apses. (Fig. 809.) ^ In a side chapel of the cathedral are four sarcophagi of porphyry which contain theashes of King- Roger and members of his family. That of King Roger is borne on… … Fig-. 307. Palermo. East End of Cathedral. A monastery was connected with this, as with nearly all theSicilian churches, which was occupied by the Cistercians until thefourteenth century.^ We come now to the latest and most splendid of all the monu-ments of the Norman rule in Sicily, the cathedral…
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