With its volumes, the chapel dominates the area above the passageway and extends, with a central plan, covered by a hexagonal dome resting on a square and adorned with pairs of [approfondimenti id="49719" testo_link="pilasters"], alternating with the small windows inserted in the [approfondimenti id...

Amidst a mixture of different classical, Byzantine and Arab artistic influences, the temple’s magnificence religiously evokes the sumptuousness of a domus aurea with its one hundred and thirty paintings with a gold background, which are spread throughout the rooms of the Cathedral. In the splendou...

The mosaic cycle, with the great story of Man and Salvation, inspired by Genesis, the Gospels and the Apocalypse, concludes with the decorations of the three [approfondimenti id="48111" testo_link="apses"], which represent the apex of the ascending path, begun in the [approfondimenti id="49683" test...

The mosaics of the [approfondimenti id="48169" testo_link="nave"], featuring scenes from [approfondimenti id="49783" testo_link="the Old"] and [approfondimenti id="49784" testo_link="New Testaments"], as well as the interplay of columns that runs through and punctuates the interior of the cathedral,...

The sublime feeling that greets those who enter the Monreale Cathedral takes the form of a dialogue between different cultures, starting from the feeling of infinity symbolically profused in the message of faith inherent in the [approfondimenti id="49668" testo_link="Western Latin tradition"] and th...

Looking back over the centuries, one naturally wonders about the atmosphere that permeated this place, introduced by the long rows of the [approfondimenti id="48169" testo_link="central nave’s columns"], which accompany the gaze in an ever closer succession of [approfondimenti id="48750" testo_lin...

In the Cathedral of Monreale, there is a particular spatial composition of the [approfondimenti id="49932" testo_link="presbyteral area"], consisting of a double volume, in some cases also called double [approfondimenti id="48162" testo_link="transept"]. It is this typology, unique in Sicily for No...

From the right-hand side aisle of the cathedral, passing through a portal which may date back to William II's era, located symmetrically on the opposite side of the side entrance, we enter the chapel of [approfondimenti id="49588" testo_link="San Castrense"], located in the north wing of the cloiste...

The name of the person who shaped the project is still unknown, but the work of the Florentine master [approfondimenti id="38145" testo_link="Pietro Bacchiotta"] and the Palermitan sculptor [approfondimenti id="49595" testo_link="Marco Antonio d'Aprile"] is certain. They embellished this oblong and...

Stopping at the centre of the [approfondimenti id="49683" testo_link="main nave"] invites us on a kaleidoscopic journey through time, starting from the eight arches that follow one another on each side of the longitudinal body. They are supported by eighteen columns, which are equal in height with ...