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Mosaics at Monreale Cathedral in Sicily / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Monreale Cathedral Mosaics are the main internal feature of Monreale Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of the Assumption Monreale. The Cathedral's mosaics cover 6,500 m2. It was constructed at the orders of King William II and later was beatified to the Assumption of the Virgin. The Monreale Cathedral is located in the city of Palermo, Sicily, Italy. The mosaics are made up of glass tesserae in the Byzantine style. The Byzantine style was spread to areas if Italy due to trade and conquest. Recently, there has been an increase in research conducted on the Monreale Cathedral mosaics, to attempt to reveal methods by which they produced the mosaics after the 12th century.