COLUMNA DE UN ALTAR SICILIANO France Their austere design highlights the

Their austere design highlights the importance of the material

while these privileges languished in the rest of Europe

Origen: Francia primera mitad del siglo XX

the capital of Chhattisgarh

COLUMNA DE UN ALTAR SICILIANO France Their austere design highlights theMaterial: Pine wood Origin: Piazza Armerina Ciazza, Kingdom of Further Sicily, circa 1700 Measurements: 12 cm diameter x 102 cm high The well deserved title of Urbs Opulentissima, bestowed by Emperor Charles V, reveals the magnificence that the plastic arts reached in Piazza Armerina. This fragment of an altar, circumscribed in the early Sicilian Baroque style, brings out the restraint and rationality inherent in the Lombard minority of Sicily and, in