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San Cataldo in Capella Palatina
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 San Cataldo ca. 1160 |
The Great Admiral Maio of Bari supported the construction of San Cataldo ca. 1160, just before he was murdered in a plot hatched by the Archbishop of Palermo. The "highly ornate crenelation . . . is of Islamic derivation" and was probably similar to the crenelation now gone of its neighbor. Ernst Kitzinger, The Mosaics of St. Mary's of the Admiral in Palermo (Dumbarton Oaks Studies 27; Washington, D.C. 1990) 40 |
