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Title: Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Waern, Cecilia, 1853-
Subjects: Art Art, Medieval
Publisher: London, Duckworth & co
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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etiquette (PI. IV. p. 41). On the other hand, the panels with histories from the Old Testament, on the walls of the nave,seem (as far as one can judge from below, frommuch restored and somewhat plausible work)designed and executed with more breadth andfreedom of conception and handling than the cor-responding but more cramped and crowded panelsin the Cappella Palatina ; and withal with a certainlove of sumptuous accessories that stands the socialhistorian in good stead. The study of ornamentinitiated at the Martorana may also be continuedwith pleasure and profit here, as in all greatensembles of decorative art which is still traditionaland not yet effete. The Monreale workshop in mosaic was still inexistence in the sixteenth century. On the wallsof the transepts there are still some mosaics,very good of their kind, executed early in thatcentury by a highly gifted artist. Maestro Pietrodi Maso Oddo. Both church and cloister werethen, we are told in a piteous condition, so that214 y.y.
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w z o > Q THE CATHEDRAL OF MONREALE the rain came in through the roof (in the nave),and were put thoroughly into repair. * * The importance of Monreale for the study ofSouthern Italian sculpture is well known. Thereis, however, as the observant student cannot fail tonotice, none of this in the interior of the greatcathedral ; none of those sculptured fonts, pulpits,or chancel screens that the reawakening sculpturalinstinct in other regions seized hold of for theircarved representations of Biblical scenes; nor oneof those Paschal candlesticks, one of which hasfound its way to the Cappella Palatina, that arefound in all the other great churches on theneighbouring mainland. There are not even anytraces of them broken up and put away, as is thecase with so much of the superb Romanesquesculpture of Lombardy, in side chapels or aisles oreven the sheds of the Opera, when the Medisevalchurch was overtaken by sweeping changes in styleand taste. The fact is, indubitably, that Sicily was not

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