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...
Vincenzo da Pavia's artistic apprenticeship was in Rome where he became acquainted with the painting and style of Raphael. After leaving the capital, he has been documented in Naples, Messina and Palermo. His style echoes that of the painter from Urbino and is also evident in the altarpiece for the ...
There are eight trees in the space between the four windows of the dome’s drum. Others are positioned on either side of the windows on the minor apses, in the north wall and in the wall on the corner bays. Arranged two by two, in symmetrical pairs, they act as a frame and decoration for the mosaic...
The Virgin Mary's parents take their places in the two side apses, with St. Joachim on the left and St. Anne on the right. The story of St Anne is mentioned in the Apocryphal Gospels Protoevangelium of James and Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, as well as in some hagiographic texts. According to the story,...
The Virgin Mary's parents take their places in the two side apses, with St. Joachim on the left and St. Anne on the right. St. Joachim is only mentioned in the Apocryphal Gospels. A calm man with strong moral virtues, he married Anna in his old age. Mary's birth was announced by an angel who appeare...
In the inner sides of the arches, there are seven medallions depicting busts of saints. Above the medallion of each one or close to it, the name identifying the saint emerges from the gold background. In the medallions of the eastern arch, bishops such as St John Chrysostom, St Basil, St Gregory, St...
MiC – Ministero della Cultura
Legge 77/2006 - Misure Speciali di Tutela e Fruizione dei Siti Italiani di Interesse Culturale, Paesaggistico e Ambientale, inseriti nella “Lista Del Patrimonio Mondiale”, posti sotto la Tutela dell’ UNESCO Regione Siciliana.
Assessorato dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana, Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana.
Parco archeologico della Valle dei Templi di Agrigento.
