Cappella Palatina (Palermo, Italy): Ceiling painting: Detail, musicians

Published/Created:

ca. 1130-1140

Notes:

Small palace chapel in Palermo with walls covered in bright pictorial mosaic; one of most exquisite buildings of the Middle Ages. Roger II enlarged and converted the 10th-century Arab fortress on the site into a palace, now known as the Palazzo dei Norman

Variant Titles:

Palatine Chapel

Topics:

Architecture -- Italy -- 12th century -- (YVRC)
Painting -- Italy -- 12th century -- (YVRC)

Period/Style:

Byzantine

Culture:

Arab-Norman-Byzantine
Islamic: Fatimid

Accession Number:

3273-1018

Genre:

chapels (rooms or structures) (AAT)
paintings (AAT)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Paintings & Drawings
Sculptures, Models, & Architecture

Rights:

The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement

Access Restrictions:

Yale Community Only

Source Note:

F. Gambrieli; Arabi in Italia (1979); Imported in 2008 from LIMS (Library of Images of Medieval Spain), originally developed by Prof. Maria Rosa Menocal in conjunction with ITG

Yale Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Digital Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Local Record Number:

Portfolio Item ID: 293663

OID:

562875

PID:

digcoll:1909366