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unusual facts about Palatine Chapel


Palatine Chapel

Cappella Palatina of the Palazzo dei Normanni in Palermo - the central monument of Arab-Norman-Byzantine art


Andrea Terzi

He taught himself illustration, and in 1872, he helped illustrate a book on the Palatine Chapel of Palermo, Il Duomo di Monreale, written by professor Michele Amari, Monsignor Isidoro Carini, and Saverio Cavallaro.

Barbarossa chandelier

The Barbarossa chandelier (German: Barbarossaleuchter) was made on the order of Emperor Frederick I, nicknamed Barbarossa and his wife Beatrice sometime between 1165 and 1170 and was installed under the cupola of the Palatine Chapel in Aachen Cathedral.

Odo of Metz

Eudes of Metz is credited as the architect of Charlemagne's Palace of Aachen with the Palatine Chapel, in Aachen.


see also

Santa Sofia, Benevento

The edifice was modeled on the Palatine Chapel of the Lombard king Liutprand in Pavia and, after the defeat of Desiderius by Charlemagne and the fall of the Lombard kingdom in northern Italy (774), it became the national church of the Lombards who had taken shelter in the Duchy of Benevento.