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THE PALATINE CHAPEL IN PALERMO (CAPPELLA PALATINA)(VIDEO)
The Palatine Chapel in Palermo (Cappella Palatina) Commenced by Roger II and consecrated in 1140.
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The wooden ceiling of star-shaped panels, carved and painted by 12th century craftsmen from Maghreb.
The Chapel is inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.The Palatine Chapel is the royal chapel of the Normankings of Kingdom of Sicily situated on the �rst �oor at thecenter of the Norman Palace in Palermo. The chapel is agreat symbol of multi-cultural cooperation. Craftsmen ofthree different religious traditions worked alongside eachother.
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The magni�cent wooden ceiling. Nave, north side.
The madonna below Christ Pantocrator is an additionfrom the 18th century. Originally there was a windowthere. The Palatine Chapel, consecrated on Palm Sunday,28 April, 1140, is inscribed on UNESCO’s World HeritageList. The mosaics in the Palatine Chapel were probablymade by the same craftsmen that made the mosaics inthe Martorana and the central apse of the Cathedral inCefalù. The wooden ceiling of star-shaped panels, carvedand painted by 12th century craftsmen from Maghreb.
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A sculptural detail of the Paschal Candelabrum in Cappella Palatina. The Palatine Chapel is part of the Norman
Palace (Palazzo dei Normanni)
Originally there were 50 windows (later blocked) designed
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Originally there were 50 windows (later blocked) designedto illuminate at all times of the day the stories told on thewall. The texts in the chapel are written in Greek, Arabicand Latin. The term “Normans” (“men from the North”)applied �rst to the people of Scandinavia in general, andafterwards (Northmannus, Normannus, Normand) it is thename of the Viking colonists from Scandinavia whosettled themselves in Gaul and founded Normandy.
A sculptural detail of the Paschal Candelabrum.
The Normans’ adopted a new religion (becameChristians), a new language, a new system of law andsociety, new thoughts and feelings on all matters. Fromtheir new home in northern France they set forth on newerrands of conquest, chie�y in the British Islands and insouthern Italy and Sicily. If Britain and Sicily were the greatest �elds of theirenterprise, they were however very far from being the only�elds. The same spirit of enterprise which brought the
Northmen into Gaul seems to carry the Normans into
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Northmen into Gaul seems to carry the Normans intoevery corner of the world.
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The conquest of England was made directly fromNormandy, by the reigning duke, in a comparatively shorttime, while the conquest of Sicily grew out of the earlierand far more gradual conquest of Apulia and Calabria byprivate men, making their own fortunes and gatheringround them followers from all quarters. They foughtsimply for their own hands, and took what they could bythe right of the stronger. They started with no such claim
as Duke William put forth to justify his invasion of
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as Duke William put forth to justify his invasion ofEngland; their only show of legal right was the papal grantof conquests that were already made. The conquest ofApulia, won bit by bit in many years of what we can onlycall freebooting, was not a national Norman enterpriselike the conquest of England, and the settlement to whichit led could not be a national Norman settlement in thesame sense.
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The Sicilian enterprise had in some respects anothercharacter. By the time it began the freebooters had growninto princes. Sicily was won by a duke of Apulia and acount of Sicily. Warfare in Sicily brought in higher motivesand objects. Althought this was before the Crusades, thestrife with the Muslims at once brought in the crusading
element. Duke William was undisputed master of England
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element. Duke William was undisputed master of Englandat the end of �ve years; it took Count Roger thirty years tomake himself undisputed master of Sicily.
The one claimed an existing kingdom, and obtained fullpossession of it in a comparatively short time; the otherformed for himself a dominion bit by bit, which rose to therank of a kingdom.
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