Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages . ical) influence, in Corinthian capitals and fineclassical mouldings. The pilasters and small insetshafts below these are gone. French is the doorway, with its clear musicalmouldings, French the sprightly crocketed capitals;there is no doubt, no question to one familiar withthe French architectual idiom. Only here it istranslated into fine clear-cut marbles, where ashimmering rose-colour, rich black and white, useddarker and lighter, as the occasion demanded,combine with pure white and silvery grey intoexquisite polychromy—evidently
Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages . ical) influence, in Corinthian capitals and fineclassical mouldings. The pilasters and small insetshafts below these are gone. French is the doorway, with its clear musicalmouldings, French the sprightly crocketed capitals;there is no doubt, no question to one familiar withthe French architectual idiom. Only here it istranslated into fine clear-cut marbles, where ashimmering rose-colour, rich black and white, useddarker and lighter, as the occasion demanded,combine with pure white and silvery grey intoexquisite polychromy—evidently due to southerninspiration. Further assimilation of southernstandards of taste is shown in the rows of carvedupright leaves in the mouldings, and, more in-teresting still, four projecting Lombardo-Apuliangrotesque beasts, suggesting either that the architecthad tarried in Italy by the way, with an artisticmind open to suggestions, or possibly that theexecution of the doorway was in part entrusted toItalian workmen by the French architect, keeping,236 XLIV. AliicLii DOORWAY, CASTELLO DI MANIACE, SYRACUSE p. 236 XLV T1 - .->
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