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Norman Graphics: A Multimedia Manifesto

Authors : Vincenza Garofalo, Federica Villanti

Published in: Proceedings of the 2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Image and Imagination

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The apses of the Cathedral of Monreale (XII century) are characterised by extraordinarily rich decorations, to enhance the most sacred part of the sanctuary where the altar is located.
The paper describes some circular inlays of the central apse of the Cathedral of Monreale through a geometric analysis communicated via a multimedia language.
The geometric motifs can be arranged in a graphic composition according to an imaginative process that collects all the scientific analysis procedure described above such as a sort of Manifesto of the Norman architectural culture geometry in Sicily and in southern Italy. The Manifesto is an audio-visual product, consisting of vector drawings’ animations sequences and conceived as a programmatic document, a form of narration that exposes the rules and principles of the inlays’ geometries.
The aim of the Manifesto is to make perceptible and understandable the geometries that generate the motifs and to highlight variations, links and connections between geometries. The Manifesto is the narration of the inlays represented through moving images, an audio-visual product aimed at enhancing and communicating the geometry of the disks of the central apse.

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Footnotes
1
The paragraphs "Study of Geometries", "The Representation of a Manifesto" are by Vincenza Garofalo with Introduction and Conclusions, while the paragraph "The elaboration of the multimedia product" and the drawings are by Federica Villanti.
 
2
The ornamental motif of the interlaced and translated arches is present in several examples in southern Italy and Sicily. For the geometric analysis of the translational and rotational symmetries of some examples of arches intertwined in Amalfi and Ravello see Ornella Zerlenga (2006).
 
3
For a broader discussion of the subject, see Bottari (1955) and Cadei (1994) and the bibliography cited in the related notes.
 
4
Krönig (1965), 211.
 
5
De Simone, Il rilievo come documento di ricerca, in Ginex (1987), 23–24.
 
6
El-Said (1993), 121.
 
7
For an accurate study of Islamic geometries see El-Said (1993).
 
8
The octagram is a self-intersecting polygon obtained by linking pairs of not adjacent vertices of a regular octagon through a continuous line, until the first vertex is reached again.
 
9
The audiovisual product can be viewed at the web address. https://​player.​vimeo.​com/​video/​186036070 (consulted in January 2019).
 
10
Argentino M., Design per la conservazione e la valorizzazione dei beni culturali in Sicilia, in Daverio and Trapani (2013), 29.
 
11
The study of Islamic geometries in the detailed analysis carried out by Critchlow (1999) was fundamental for the process of redrawing the inlays.
 
12
De Simone, Il rilievo come documento di ricerca, in Ginex (1987), 36.
 
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Metadata
Title
Norman Graphics: A Multimedia Manifesto
Authors
Vincenza Garofalo
Federica Villanti
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Proceedings of the 2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Image and Imagination

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-41017-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-41018-6

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41018-6_39

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