Palerme & Syracuse
Palerme & Syracuse is a 1907 art-historical guide published in Paris by H. Laurens and written by Charles Diehl, covering Sicilian monuments for readers of architecture and medieval art. Its photographs show a Byzantine-style mosaic of an enthroned Christ with saints and lions, a bronze-panelled church door with relief scenes, a mosaic dome with a central figure, and a measured drawing of caryatids supporting an entablature. A designer might take the gold-ground mosaic pattern, the dense repeating panel grid of the door, and the rhythm of stone figures holding up a roof.
