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The Normans in Sicily; being a sequel to "An architectural tour in Normandy"

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First published: 1838
Pages: 214

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The Normans in Sicily is an architectural and historical study by Henry Gally Knight (1786-1846), the English MP and antiquary whose travel volumes on medieval building helped lay the foundations of the Victorian study of Norman and Saracenic architecture. Issued as the sequel to his Architectural Tour in Normandy, the book traces the Norman conquest of Sicily under Robert Guiscard and Roger I and surveys the surviving churches, palaces, and fortifications of Palermo, Cefalù, and Monreale. Gally Knight gives detailed descriptions of mosaics, columns, and ceilings, and discusses how Norman, Byzantine, and Arabic styles fused in twelfth-century Sicily. The book was illustrated and influenced the later nineteenth-century revival of interest in Sicilian Norman architecture among British antiquaries and architects. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.

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Henry Gally Knight

Henry Gally Knight was a British traveller, politician, poet, and writer on architecture whose books grew from journeys through Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. His literary work ranged across Poems on Various Subjects, Eastern Sketches, in Verse, and the paired tales Phrosyne a Grecian Tale; Alashtar; An Arabian Tale. Hannibal in Bithynia. a Play.