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In the grandiose interior, the luminous 12th- and 13th-century mosaics of the nave and apse depict the complete cycle of the Old Testament, replete with a 66-ft high Christ Pantocrator with saints, while the aisle mosaics narrate the miracles of Jesus.
The richly decorated iconostasis has highly regarded icons painted by Jeremias of Crete in 1612, but the sixth century mosaics on the ceiling of the apse are the church’s most impressive feature.
Inside the porch, mint 12th-century mosaics show, to the right, Jesus crowning Sicily’s Norman king, Roger I, and to the left, his admiral, Georges of Antioch, at the feet of the Madonna.
The lively secular and pagan mosaics from Pompeii’s patrician villas make a striking contrast with the rigid formality of church mosaics that we see elsewhere in Italy.
Sculptural reliefs flattened out to symbolic decorative, non-human forms, and painting and mosaics were rich in color, but more rigid and formal.