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The Artistic Culture of Twelfth-Century Sicily, with a Focus on Palermo

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As discursive phenomena, style and chronology are inextricably intertwined in the art historical imagination: there is no style without chronology and no chronology without style. The two together are like a force-field in physics or the manifestation of movement: style is the instant in its utter particularity (no matter how large: I would include period style here too), and chronology is the trajectory along which all of the individual moments collect themselves and travel. Style is definable only against the backdrop of chronology and chronology is the image of the very movement of style. The issues that have been raised by these phenomena have been discussed ad infinitum and in a vast array of permutations, including the protean island of Sicily.

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Tronzo, W. (2015). The Artistic Culture of Twelfth-Century Sicily, with a Focus on Palermo. In: Karagoz, C., Summerfield, G. (eds) Sicily and the Mediterranean. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137486936_4

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