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The Palatine Chapel of Palermo's Palazzo Reale is the highest artistic expression of the brilliant and eclectic Norman age season, the ripest fruit and complete the ethnic-cultural syncretism of the kingdom of Sicily. It is the reproduction in the artistic sense of the political masterpiece brought to fruition by Roger II, dedicated to St. Peter was built after the coronation Ruggero II took place in 
1130, and consecrated in 1140. The building was built over an older chapel, the small church of Santa Maria of Jerusalem. From an architectural point of view the building has a mixed plant, composed by the union of a basilican type plant, one of the aisles, with a central type, that of triapsidal sanctuary and covered with a dome, realized according to the spatial requirements of the rituals Byzantine. The interior of the Chapel is one of the most extraordinary places around the medieval Mediterranean, a work of art "Total" and contingency point between two very different artistic spheres, Byzantine and Islamic,
subordinated to the service of ideology of power Normans. In the chapel includes people who have Islamic Fatimid architecture and those of Byzantine painting. The latter manifests itself in grandiose rich mantle mosaic that covers over their entire perimeter of the building walls. The mosaics of the dome, dating to 1143, are the oldest mosaics of Norman Sicily. At the center is a depiction of a bust of Christ Pantocrator within a golden disk, surrounded by four archangels in sumptuous Byzantine imperial clothes and four angels. Following figures of evangelists and figures of prophets, according to a descending hierarchical scan. The paintings of the wooden ceiling of the chapel represent the largest existing complex of painting the entire Islamic world, and there are depicted scenes of dancers, musicians and musicians, drinkers, fighters and jugglers, hunters and warriors, with a distinctly profane and highly hedonistic , who want to be an invocation beneficial to the life of the king, as well as indicate the Arabic inscriptions that accompany the paintings.
1130, and consecrated in 1140. The building was built over an older chapel, the small church of Santa Maria of Jerusalem. From an architectural point of view the building has a mixed plant, composed by the union of a basilican type plant, one of the aisles, with a central type, that of triapsidal sanctuary and covered with a dome, realized according to the spatial requirements of the rituals Byzantine. The interior of the Chapel is one of the most extraordinary places around the medieval Mediterranean, a work of art "Total" and contingency point between two very different artistic spheres, Byzantine and Islamic, subordinated to the service of ideology of power Normans. In the chapel includes people who have Islamic Fatimid architecture and those of Byzantine painting. The latter manifests itself in grandiose rich mantle mosaic that covers over their entire perimeter of the building walls. The mosaics of the dome, dating to 1143, are the oldest mosaics of Norman Sicily. At the center is a depiction of a bust of Christ Pantocrator within a golden disk, surrounded by four archangels in sumptuous Byzantine imperial clothes and four angels. Following figures of evangelists and figures of prophets, according to a descending hierarchical scan. The paintings of the wooden ceiling of the chapel represent the largest existing complex of painting the entire Islamic world, and there are depicted scenes of dancers, musicians and musicians, drinkers, fighters and jugglers, hunters and warriors, with a distinctly profane and highly hedonistic , who want to be an invocation beneficial to the life of the king, as well as indicate the Arabic inscriptions that accompany the paintings.
