. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. Fig. 317. Chapel of La Favara. ? SICILIAN ARCHITECTURE 117. Fig. 318. Palermo. La Zisa. this class of buildings; and on the interior, traces of decoratedvaults and walls of marked Saracenic character.^ The more familiar examples of this Norman-Saracenic style arethe two palaces which are now known to have been built by the sonand grandson of King Roger, — William the Bad and William theGood,—the Zisa and the Cuba. Both these interesting buildingsare valuable, not only in themselves, but from the t
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. Fig. 317. Chapel of La Favara. ? SICILIAN ARCHITECTURE 117. Fig. 318. Palermo. La Zisa. this class of buildings; and on the interior, traces of decoratedvaults and walls of marked Saracenic character.^ The more familiar examples of this Norman-Saracenic style arethe two palaces which are now known to have been built by the sonand grandson of King Roger, — William the Bad and William theGood,—the Zisa and the Cuba. Both these interesting buildingsare valuable, not only in themselves, but from the testimony theybear to the readiness with which the Normans availed themselves ofthe Arabian genius for luxurious and elegant domestic architectureand the kindred arts, especially the art of formal landscape garden-ing and the use of water. The Zisa, which stands a mile or more outside the western gate ofPalermo, is still in a tolerably good condition. It is a rectangularblock of buildings of squared stone, with but little mortar, and mea-suring on the ground about one hundred and fifteen by sixty-two feet,with a height of eighty feet. (Fig. 318.) T
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