The Mosaics of St. Mary's of the Admiral in Palermo

Dumbarton Oaks
Slobodan Çurciç
ISBN: 0884021793
price: $85.00  

The church of St. Mary of the Admiral in Palermo, commonly known as La Martorana, is the foundation of George of Antioch, an Orthodox Greek from Syria who rose to the highest position in the service of Roger II, the first of the Norman kings of Sicily. Admiral George built the church in the 1140s as a thanks-offering to the Virgin and had it adorned with mosaics by artists from Byzantium.
This famous decoration is published here for the first time in its entirety. The text explores the iconographic and stylistic sources on which the Greek mosaicists drew, the departures from Byzantine norms due to local circumstances, and the relationship of the decoration to contemporary work in the royal foundations.