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 282
his palace, the family of Chiaramonti,warm rivals of the Sclafani, had also built a palace, which is nowused as a court house, but was in the beginning known as the Steripalace. It is of sterner architecture than that last noticed, with alower story nearly or quite thirty feet high without… … Fig. 422. Palermo. Palazzo Sclafani. gone. The inner court is much changed, retaining little of its origi-nal aspect, but the great hall of the principal story has still its elab-orate ceiling with its Saracenic decoration.^ 1 Mothes, pp. 584, 585; Gaily Knight, Sar. and Nor. Bern., pi. 26. 2…
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