Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages . s notfollow that the whole tiny palace is fitments as doors and columns would bereadily taken from older buildings in those any case the Saracenic style in Sicily would belikely, after 1060-70, to be backward. All the lovely minor objects of art—or of dailyuse—scattered about these halls or brought out onState occasions to strike awe into the beholder, arenow, however, lost or dispersed. In Palermo itselfthere only remain one or two ivory caskets—andthe priceless and beautiful crown of the EmpressConsta
Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages . s notfollow that the whole tiny palace is fitments as doors and columns would bereadily taken from older buildings in those any case the Saracenic style in Sicily would belikely, after 1060-70, to be backward. All the lovely minor objects of art—or of dailyuse—scattered about these halls or brought out onState occasions to strike awe into the beholder, arenow, however, lost or dispersed. In Palermo itselfthere only remain one or two ivory caskets—andthe priceless and beautiful crown of the EmpressConstance, King Rogers daughter. The ivory caskets may now be studied in thetreasury of the Cappella Palatina. It will not sur-prise any one who has examined it at all attentively,or tried in vain to account for the occurrence ofthis rounded and opulent shape in the twelfthcentury, to hear that the handsomest of thesealleged Arabo-Norman caskets is, by M. GastonMigeon, considered to be made in Sicily a uneepoque relativement basse et selon les procedes128 XI. CARVED FRAME OF DOOR FROM THE CASAMARTURANU Now in the Sala Araba in the Museum, Palermo. To the left, attached to the wall, a panel (originally one of eight) of the same door, having three carved panels set in plain boards. Above, Saracenesque brackets from Trapani, see xi. /. 128 THE SUMPTUOUS ARTS italiens du XV* siecle, avec des formules decora-tives arabes. It is not the less interesting on thataccount from our point of view. It is nice to be allowed to believe, on the otherhand, on the authority of the same competent judge,that the far more interesting painted ivory casketof the Cappella Palatina may represent a localSicilian tradition of style. Says M. Migeon : IIest enfin une serie divoires peints, generalement desboites de forme cylindrique, decores au pourtourdu couvercle dune inscription coufique, et sur lasurface de la boite, de scenes a plusieurs person-nages, de cavaliers et danimaux. Parfois la formed
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