Leone - Siculo-Norman art: Islamic culture in medieval Sicily

Front Cover

Room of Ruggero in the Palazzo Reale,
detail of the wall decoration, Palermo.

Museum With No Frontiers Exhibition Trails

ISLAMIC ART IN THE MEDITERRANEAN | ITALY

Siculo-Norman Art

Islamic Culture in Medieval Sicily

Museum With No Frontiers

EUROPEAN UNION MEDA-Euromed Heritage European Social Fund	The MWNF Exhibition Trail SICULO-NORMAN ART: Islamic Culture in Medieval Sicily is part of the international cycle Islamic Art in the Mediterranean. Its realisation through collaboration between Museum With No Frontiers, the Association Innova and the Department of History and Architectural Planning of the University of Studies of Palermo, has fallen within the ambit of the Project Workshop of Sicilian Culture, postgraduate training courses, promoted and implemented by the
University of Palermo	Department of History and Architectural Planning at the University of Palermo
Regional Province of Palermo	With the cooperation of the Regional Province of Palermo And co-financed by the European Social Fund through the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance
Ministry of Labour	And the Department of Labour, Social Insurance, Professional Training and Emigration of the Sicilian Region, Department of Professional Training
Department of Cultural Heritage Department of Labour	Under the patronage of the Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage of the Sicilian Region
	The project: Workshop of Sicilian Heritage postgraduate training courses is an experiment, the main objective of which is to link professional training for the management of cultural heritage with concrete initiatives concerning employment and development in the territory of Sicily.

First edition

2003 Dipartimento di Storia e Progetto nellArchitettura dellUniversit di Palermo, Palermo, Italy & Museum With No Frontiers (texts and illustrations)

2003 Electa (Grupo Random House Mondadori S.L.), Madrid, Spain & Museum With No Frontiers

Second edition

2010 Dipartimento di Storia e Progetto nellArchitettura dellUniversit di Palermo, Palermo, Italy & Museum With No Frontiers (texts and illustrations)

2010 Museum With No Frontiers

ISBN: 978-3-902782-05-2

All rights reserved.

Information

www.museumwnf.org

www.mwnfbooks.net

Museum With No Frontiers Idea and overall concept
Eva Schubert

Activation and partnership in the project for Sicily
Association INNOVA Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Sustainable Development

Director of the project for Sicily
Salvatore Messina

Curatorial Committee

Nicola Giuliano Leone
Eliana Mauro
Carla Quartarone
Ettore Sessa

Organisation and Implementation
Workshop of Sicilian Heritage for the Department of History and Architectural Planning at the University of Palermo

Director

Carla Quartarone

Coordination

Salvatore Messina

Catalogue

Introduction
Eliana Mauro
Ettore Sessa

Presentation of Itineraries
Curatorial Committee

In collaboration with
Nuccia Donato
Gaetano Rubbino

Technical information
Maria Rita Burgio
Antonella Caronia Angitta
Valeria Raimondi
Giuseppa Sabatino

Naturalistic and landscape Options
Carla Quartarone
Elisa Martines
Raimondo Piazza
Federica Sapuppo

Index of places
Venera Raciti

Historical notes on the cities
Angelo Pettineo

Historical notes on the city of Palermo
Eliana Mauro

Glossary
Nada Iannaggi
Santa Levanto
Alessandra Zirilli

Historical Personalities
Maria Luisa Ari
Gaetano Pullara

Photography
Sandro Scalia, Palermo

General plan
Jos Antonio Dvila, Madrid
Sergio Viguera, Madrid

Editorial coordination for the Italian edition
Pier Paolo Racioppi, Rome

Translation
Diana Elles, London

Copy editor
Mandi Gomez, London

Technical control
Miguel Garca, Madrid

General Introduction
Islamic Art in the Mediterranean
Jamila Binous, Tunis
Mahmoud Hawari, East Jerusalem
Manuela Marn, Madrid
Gnl ney, Smyrna

Plans
akir akmak, Esmirna
Ertan Da, Esmirna
Yekta Demiralp, Esmirna

Layout and design
Augustina Fernndez,
Electa Espaa, Madrid
Christian Eckart,
MWNF, Vienna (2nd edition)

Local coordination

Production
Workshop of Sicilian Heritage

Director
Carla Quartarone

In collaboration with
Paola Lantieri
Selim Benattia

International coordination

Overall coordination
Eva Schubert

Curatorial committees, translations, editing and production of the catalogues (1st edition)

Sakina Missoum, Madrid

Contributions and credits

All the following have collaborated in the realisation of this project. On the bibliography: Santa Levanto, Angelo Pettineo, Giuseppa Sabatino; research of iconographic material: Alessandra Agnello, Maurizio Genovese, Rosamaria Laura Samparisi; graphic processing of illustrations: Rosamaria Laura Samparisi; photography: Iolanda Licata, Gaetano Mazza, Luca Raimondo, Costanza Sapuppo; plans of itineraries: Donatella Bertolo, Giovanna Rita Elmo.

All the following have helped to elaborate the architectonic designs: Manlio Ajello, Grazia Bellardita, Adele Capitano, Giovanni Castiglia, Massimo Chiarelli, Shaker Hassan, Paola Lantieri, Stefania Mellone, Gaetano Pullara, Valeria Raimondi, Giuseppa Sabatino, Giuseppe Siragusa, Sergio Viguera.

The following students participating in the project: Workshop of Sicilian Heritage postgraduate training courses in 2000, took part also in the realisation of the Exhibition and compilation of this Catalogue, specialising as:

Mediators in Cultural Heritage: Fabia Adelfio, Alessandra Agnello, Chiara Bucchieri, Maria Rita Burgio, Antonina Caronia Angitta, Massimo Giuseppe Chiarelli, Barbara Giorgiani, Gabriella La Russa, Santa Levanto, Elisa Martines, Gaetano Mazza, Angelo Pettineo, Raimondo Piazza, Gaetano Pullara, Luca Raimondo, Barbara Rappa, Rosamaria Laura Samparisi, Costanza Sapuppo, Federica Sapuppo.

Tourist Information Providers: Manlio Ajello, Luigi Alcamo, Loredana Benincasa, Cinzia Caminiti, Adele Capitano, Marina Castiglione, Valentine DAlia, Maria Ferro, Fabrizio Gangi, Shaker Hassan, Massimiliano Impeduglia, Ilaria Lodato, Stefania Mellone, Delfina Morgante, Nicoletta Oddio, Marina Ruggeri, Giuseppa Sabatino.