Successor of the Grand Count Roger I of Hauteville, Roger II was born in Mileto on 22 December 1095. When Duke William died without an heir, he was appointed Duke of Salerno and, despite the hostility of Pope Honorius II, he obtained important victories in Calabria and Apulia in a short space of tim...

During the Muslim rule, from 948, Sicily was governed by the Kalbita Emirate, who carried out a territorial reorganisation of the island by dividing it into three large areas, called the Valleys. This subdivision, already reported in a Norman document of 1094, described as "antiquae divisiones sarac...

Giuseppe Patricolo, born in Palermo in 1834, was a restorer and architect. Architect of the Royal House and Royal Sites of Campagna in Palermo, it was thanks to him that numerous historical properties were restored. Among these are the churches of San Francesco d'Assisi, San Cataldo, Santo Spirito, ...

Nephew of the Dominican architect Andrea Palma, Nicolò was born in Trapani in 1694. His artistic activity took place in the city of Palermo where, in 1730, he was appointed architect of the Senate and engineer of the Royal Patrimony. He worked on the façade of Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio and on nu...

The Norman kingdom became a melting pot of different worlds, languages and religions, not only Western Latin but also Eastern Byzantine and Islamic Arabic. The rulers succeeded in creating a dialogue between the people of the Mediterranean, based on peaceful coexistence, cooperation and the mixing o...

Olivio Sozzi was born in Catania in 1690. He studied drawing both in Palermo and Rome, in the Sebastiano Conca’s workshop, where he learned classical-style architecture. He returned to Sicily and was engaged in several cities: Messina, Enna, Siracusa, Ragusa, Palermo, Catania. In 1763, he worked o...

The cycle with the New Testament stories includes the following episodes: Circumcision, Adoration of the Magi, Escape to Egypt, Dispute of the Doctors of the Church, Meeting of Christ with the Adulteress, Wedding at Cana, Calling of Peter, Prayer in the Garden, Christ and the Leper, Christ and the S...

The cycle with the stories of St. Benedict includes the following episodes: Glory of St. Benedict, St. Benedict confounds Totila, Triumph of St. Benedict among the Saints of the Benedictine Order, St. Benedict and the Rule, The Virgin between St. Benedict and St. Flavia, St. Benedict and St. Scholas...

Born in Antwerp around 1670, he was a pupil of Peter van Lindt in St. Luke's Guild. After his apprenticeship he was active in Italy, first in Naples, then in Cosenza and, from 1714, in Palermo, where he painted the ceiling of the Church of the Madonna della Volta, which was destroyed during the Seco...

Born in Palermo around 1660, he was trained in a late Novellesque environment, so much so that one of his first works was the restoration of Pietro Novelli's frescoes in Casa Professa. A painter, designer and architect, he most likely went to Rome where he had contact with the artist Calandrucci and...