. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. de is a low story,with twelve small coupled windows without bearing-arch. The cor-nice and battlements, if there were such, have disappeared. Thewalling is of stone, and the thin voussoirs are alternately of dark andlight marble, which, taken in connection with the intersecting linesof the arches, and the contrasting colors of the inlays, imparts greatlife and movement to the faQade. The palace has an interestingcourt with two stories of arcades.^ Somewhat earlier than this palace, the family of C
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. de is a low story,with twelve small coupled windows without bearing-arch. The cor-nice and battlements, if there were such, have disappeared. Thewalling is of stone, and the thin voussoirs are alternately of dark andlight marble, which, taken in connection with the intersecting linesof the arches, and the contrasting colors of the inlays, imparts greatlife and movement to the faQade. The palace has an interestingcourt with two stories of arcades.^ Somewhat earlier than this palace, the family of Chiaramonti,warm rivals of the Sclafani, had also built a palace, which is nowused as a court house, but was in the beginning known as the Steripalace. It is of sterner architecture than that last noticed, with alower story nearly or quite thirty feet high without openings, andtwo upper stories, each with a range of two and three light pointedwindows not unlike those of the Sclafani palace. The uppermoststory has lost half its length, and the cornice and battlements are *i H H nt H it H it U U. Fig-. 422. Palermo. Palazzo Sclafani. gone. The inner court is much changed, retaining little of its origi-nal aspect, but the great hall of the principal story has still its elab-orate ceiling with its Saracenic decoration.^ 1 Mothes, pp. 584, 585; Gaily Knight, Sar. and Nor. Rem., pi. 26. 2 Mothes, p. 585. 268 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY At Siracusa. thePalazzo Montalto,probably built to-wards the close ofthe fourteenth cen-tury, has a range oftwo- and three-lightwindows with broadbearing - arches, inwhich the Normanchevron is conspicu-ous, while the twistedmullion shafts, thejamb columns, andthe broad archivolts,remind one of Ve-rona. (Fig. 424.) At Taormina sev-^t eral build- Taormina. j^gs of the fourteenth century,in somewhat ruinouscondition, illustratealso in an interest-ing manner the influ-ence of the Saracens. Of these, the most notable are the PalazzoGalati, dating from about 1330,
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