Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages . CiUpi, Taormina THE PORTA DI CATANIA, TAORMINA f. 238 XLVII. Ci:ipi. Taormiiui PALAZZO DEL DUCA DI S. STEFANO. TAORMLVA /• ^39 FREDliRlC II. AND SICILIAN GOTHIC so close as to make it seem almost a loggia, builtup there on purpose to enjoy the view. The tinyPalazzo del Duca di S. Stefano is more French inplan ; it has ^.grande salle with one central pillar sup-porting the ribs of the magnificent vaulting, a perronor outside stairway, now, alas! in an eighteenth-century version, and below the grande salle, a bath,also vaulted, with
Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages . CiUpi, Taormina THE PORTA DI CATANIA, TAORMINA f. 238 XLVII. Ci:ipi. Taormiiui PALAZZO DEL DUCA DI S. STEFANO. TAORMLVA /• ^39 FREDliRlC II. AND SICILIAN GOTHIC so close as to make it seem almost a loggia, builtup there on purpose to enjoy the view. The tinyPalazzo del Duca di S. Stefano is more French inplan ; it has ^.grande salle with one central pillar sup-porting the ribs of the magnificent vaulting, a perronor outside stairway, now, alas! in an eighteenth-century version, and below the grande salle, a bath,also vaulted, with a conduit for running water. There are several outside stairways in court-yards at Taormina ; one in the Palazzo Corvaja,dating from 1372, and interesting also asshowing the development of later Gothic forms onlines parallel with those we observe in TransalpineGothic ; the pointed arch becomes an ogee,mouldings become heavier and duller, foliagetends to become thicker and clumsier if oftenhandsome in effect. This type of later Gothic,more Northern than Italian, is not unfrequentlymet with all over Sicily.
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