Late Byzantine Mosaics — Monreale

In the hills behind Palermo, Sicily, is the community of Monreale — "Royal Mountain" — and the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin, built by a Norman King of Sicily in the late 12th century, that contains a huge and spectacular collection of late Byzantine mosaics in gleaming gold, marble, glass and lapis lazuli.

This is the third and last part of my short series on Byzantine mosaics from the 5th to the 13th centuries in Ravenna and Sicily. All images were made in September 2018. You'll find the companion posts on the Hellenistic-Roman mosaics and the classic Sixth Century mosaics of San Vitale in Ravenna — the Italian capital of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian.

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