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A glance over the art of Sicily
The prehistorical age
At the end of the Paleolithic age, Sicily was showed to have traces of human beings. A great number of caves which are to be found along the northwest coasts of Sicily in their rock paintings reveal the presence of …
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From the Greek to the Byzantine age
The architectonic witnesses left by Greeks and Romans in the island of gods are the most beautiful artistic expressions of the antiquity. The Greeks landed in Sicily in the 8th century B.C., invariably founding their colonies by the sea or …
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From the Arabs to the Mannierism period
The Arab influence is very much more strongly apparent in the central-plan buildings in Mazara area and mostly in the Palermo churches of San Giovanni degli Eremiti, San Cataldo, Santo Spirito, as well as in some important Palazzi such as …
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From the Baroque age to the decadentism period
Sicily is a naturally Baroque island. Baroque explodes in the stone ornamentations, in the architectural structures, in the cromatic sensuality of the frescoes which embellish the coastal and inland cities and towns. The Baroque spectacle begins in the City of …
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