Author: DEMUS, Otto.
Title: The Mosaics of Norman Sicily.
Description: Hacker Art Books, 1988 (1949). Hardcover. Illustrated cloth covers. Small 4to. B/W photos. Prev. owner's name neatly penned to top of titlepage. Condition very good. No dust jacket. A handsome reprint of the original 1949 edition. Provides "all the archaeological and documentary data necessary for a close study of the monuments, data which were in part never ascertained, in part never collected before; to analyse the monuments themselves as works of art, to show the men behind their work; and to assign to the single decorations (or parts of decorations) their places within the framework of the Sicilian and the Byzantine developments". 478pp + plates of illustrations. ISBN-13: 978-0878173105 ISBN-10: 0878173102.

Keywords: norman sicily italy italian mosaic mosaics tiles archaeology archaeological anthropology anthropological social culture cultural art europe european byzantine