Sicile médiévale, aspects de la vie et de l'art dans les âges moyens . vision de l'artisan qualifié comme source de joie afresh. Les autres types assez jolis dérivés de Corinthiens ici ont figuré sans doute occurele.ca, comme dans Pise et Lucques contemporains, butrèle en Sicile. Les caractéristiques sont, laissant de côté tous les termes techniques Grasco-Roman, inconnus des sculpteurs, qui n'ont vu que des suggestionsde forme, une paire de spirales ou des feuilles foldedlees largement répandues qui se sont grandissantes comme il était, au début une paire, plus tard deux, directement hors d'une tige centrale ou d'un porte-branches, avec une feuille, fleur, ou quelque chose comme sâtiff li

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Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages . vision of the skilled craftsman as afresh source of joy. The other pretty types ofCorinthian derivatives here figured doubtless occurelsewhere, as in contemporary Pisa and Lucca, butprevail in Sicily. The characteristic features are, leaving aside all Grasco-Roman technical terms, unknown to the carvers, who only saw suggestionsof form, a pair of spirals or widely spreading foldedleaves growing up as it were, at first one pair, later two, directly out of a central stem or twistedholder, with a leaf, flower, or something like astiff little brush growing up out of the centre.One is constantly running up against it in Palermo, on the Martorana tower, in the Cappella Palatina, in the church of the Magione, in Santa MariaMaddalena, even in later capitals of the cloister ofMonreale. It survives, modified, into Gothictimes, such as they were in Palermo, as for instanceon the western towers of the cathedral, or thecharming little cloister of San Domenico, bothdating from the fourteenth century.178. SANTA MAR lA MADDALENA, PALERMO t- 179 SANTA MARIA MADDALENA Alongside of these two well-known churches thelittle-known church of Santa Maria Maddalenashould not be left unnoticed. It is left stranded inthe midst of a large sunny barrack-yard, the onlywaif surviving of the many small churches onceoccupying, with their convents and gardens, thepiano of the Royal Palace or upper part of the innercity. A small, nay, a tiny basilica of three baysonly, resembling San Cataldo in plan, but withthree apses at the east end, it had at least onedome, as shown by the recessed niches over theeasternmost bay. The dome has fallen in ; theround hole in the roof is now covered by a roughroof of tiles put up in the nineties, when theruined building was put roughly into repair. Atsome time during the late Renaissance the walls ofthe short nave were raised, windows were put in, and a barrel-vault built over the nave ; but thelittle church stil

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