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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Monreale, Sicily, Italyen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1174-1189 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorunknown (Norman)en_US
dc.date1174-1189en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-27T20:27:04Z
dc.date.available2013-03-27T20:27:04Z
dc.date.issued1174-1189en_US
dc.identifier203167en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1141en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/111126
dc.descriptionView from south side apse showing eastern wall; The scheme of mosaics begins in the nave with the Creation and subsequent Old Testament scenes, progresses to the Life of Christ in the crossing, transepts and nave aisles, and culminates in the apse with a hieratic array consisting of Christ Pantokrator with his heavenly court. The programme imitates many features of the mosaic decoration of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo, but it is more expansive; and in the absence of a cupola, the main apse and presbytery form the sole theological centre. Although the style of the mosaics is Byzantine, almost all the inscriptions are in Latin, not Greek, and the disposition of the scenes in unbroken friezes is contrary to Byzantine practice. At Monreale the walls are covered with images: the surfaces not containing the main scenes--piers, soffits and spandrels--bear prophets, saints and angels. The New Testament scenes form the largest surviving monumental New Testament cycle in either East or West. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 2/1/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediumstone; marble; granite; glass; gold; mosaicen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectcycles or seriesen_US
dc.subjectdecorative artsen_US
dc.subjectNew Testamenten_US
dc.subjectOld Testament and Apocryphaen_US
dc.subjectsaintsen_US
dc.subjectBenedictinesen_US
dc.subjectCrusadesen_US
dc.subjectmosaics (visual works)en_US
dc.titleMonreale Cathedral: Interior Mosaicsen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A3-N-S-MD-3-B5en_US
vra.culturalContextNormanen_US
vra.techniquemosaic (process)en_US
vra.worktypemosaic (visual work)en_US
dc.contributor.displayunknown (Norman)en_US


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