Martorana

The best-known image of the king himself is a mosaic in the Greek style in the Palermo church known as La Martorana: he is shown wearing the ceremonial garb of a Byzantine emperor and has a Christlike beard and long hair.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

Now both Martorana Fruit and cassata are nationally recognizable banners for Sicilian pastry chefs.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

There is no feature of Sicilian food more strange than the outlandish colors on display in pastry shops: cassata, a sponge cake with ricotta cheese encased in stripes of iced marzipan in white and pale turquoise-green decorated with multihued candied fruit; and “Martorana Fruit”—marzipan dyed with garish greens, reds, and yellows and sculpted into the shape of watermelon slices, figs, and prickly pears.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

While busily sketching, in the Martorana church, the previously mentioned mosaic of

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

The Martorana church is rich in gold-grounded mosaics, resembling Saint Mark's at Venice.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

Church of Martorana is in a semi-Gothic and Saracenic style of architecture, and was built by one of King Roger's admirals in

Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux

Martorana (1143), that of Cefalù (1148), the palace church at Palermo

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

L'Annunziata, called la Martorana, was built by George of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

The +Cathedral+ of +Monreale+ and the churches of the +Eremiti+ and +La Martorana+ at Palermo are the most important.

A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890

Palermo begun by Offamilio, and in the Martorana dedicated by George the Admiral.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866