In every corner of the Temple, we bear witness to an intimate dialogue between religion and architecture pervaded by alternating colours that blend together, giving only an apparent sense of homogeneity. The stained-glass windows made in the early 1990s by the Palermo artist [approfondimenti id="51...

[caption id="attachment_40374" align="aligncenter" width="666"] The painted panels of the Cefalù Cathedral ceiling, arranged in horizontal axes, are 30cm high and 110m long. Traces of gold leaf, also found in the Palatine Chapel (iconographic similarities have also been found between Cefalù and th...

In the side aisles, there are some [approfondimenti id="51180" testo_link="funerary monuments"] and [approfondimenti id="51182" testo_link="sculptural groups"] that embellished the church in the centuries following its construction. [caption id="attachment_40343" align="aligncenter" width="768"] In...

In the Baroque and Neoclassical periods, many Italian Romanesque churches were affected by stylistic transformations, which were also carried out in important Sicilian religious buildings such as the [approfondimenti id="51178" testo_link="cathedrals of Palermo and Catania"]. These changes also inv...

A place of experimentation in the late Romanesque age, closely linked to the monumental buildings of the great European churches, the Cefalù Cathedral draws a definitive [approfondimenti id="51159" testo_link="dividing line"] between the earliest phase of the architecture in Norman Sicily. Entering...