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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 Norman
kings of Kingdom of Sicily situated on the rst oor at the
center of the Norman Palace in Palermo. The chapel is a
great symbol of multi-cultural cooperation. Craftsmen of
three different religious traditions worked alongside each
other.

The magni cent wooden ceiling. Nave, north side.
The madonna below Christ Pantocrator is an addition
from the 18th century. Originally there was a window
there. The Palatine Chapel, consecrated on Palm Sunday,
28 April, 1140, is inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage
List. The mosaics in the Palatine Chapel were probably
made by the same craftsmen that made the mosaics in
the Martorana and the central apse of the Cathedral in
Cefalù. The wooden ceiling of star-shaped panels, carved
and painted by 12th century craftsmen from Maghreb.

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

Originally there were 50 windows (later blocked) designed
to illuminate at all times of the day the stories told on the
wall. The texts in the chapel are written in Greek, Arabic
and Latin. The term “Normans” (“men from the North”)
applied rst to the people of Scandinavia in general, and
afterwards (Northmannus, Normannus, Normand) it is the
name of the Viking colonists from Scandinavia who
settled themselves in Gaul and founded Normandy.
A sculptural detail of the Paschal Candelabrum.
The Normans’ adopted a new religion (became
Christians), a new language, a new system of law and
society, new thoughts and feelings on all matters. From
their new home in northern France they set forth on new
errands of conquest, chie y in the British Islands and in
southern Italy and Sicily.
If Britain and Sicily were the greatest elds of their
enterprise, 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

Northmen into Gaul seems to carry the Normans into
every corner of the world.
Cappella Palatina, Palermo / Palatine chapel, Palermo
The conquest of England was made directly from
Normandy, by the reigning duke, in a comparatively short
time, while the conquest of Sicily grew out of the earlier
and far more gradual conquest of Apulia and Calabria by
private men, making their own fortunes and gathering
round them followers from all quarters. They fought
simply for their own hands, and took what they could by
the right of the stronger. They started with no such claim
as Duke William put forth to justify his invasion of

as Duke William put forth to justify his invasion of
England; their only show of legal right was the papal grant
of conquests that were already made. The conquest of
Apulia, won bit by bit in many years of what we can only
call freebooting, was not a national Norman enterprise
like the conquest of England, and the settlement to which
it led could not be a national Norman settlement in the
same sense.
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The Sicilian enterprise had in some respects another
character. By the time it began the freebooters had grown
into princes. Sicily was won by a duke of Apulia and a
count of Sicily. Warfare in Sicily brought in higher motives
and objects. Althought this was before the Crusades, the
strife with the Muslims at once brought in the crusading
element. Duke William was undisputed master of England

element. Duke William was undisputed master of England
at the end of ve years; it took Count Roger thirty years to
make himself undisputed master of Sicily.
The one claimed an existing kingdom, and obtained full
possession of it in a comparatively short time; the other
formed for himself a dominion bit by bit, which rose to the
rank of a kingdom.

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