I have a RedBubble Shop now!
It’s this one: taumazoShop The one below is one of the graphics I am currently working on: a building (Church of San Cataldo) composed by its own description. Once upon a time in Palermo, around the 12th century, there was not a simple church, but a huge palace. There are not many legends about this construction, but there is one about the patron: Admiral Majone of Bari. This man served King Roger II and his son William I, known as The Bad. If you are wondering why the king was called “the bad”, he was also described as “short of intellect, vicious, not brave”. Under such a king, Majone da Bari was the true governor of Sicily. The name of the palace he commissioned was Palazzo Majone. Majone da Bari would have been proud of the palace, but he never saw it completed: accused of causing riots in Sicily, he was murdered by the true protagonist of the legend: the Norman Matteo Bonelli, lord of Caccamo. Legend has it that the sword used to kill Majone is stuck on the door of the Archbishop’s Palace at a height of three meters. And what happened to the Majone Palace? It was acquired by King William I, then his descendant William II donated it to the Cathedral of Monreale. For a while, it was the post office. Over the centuries many parts of Palazzo Maione have been destroyed. Only one chapel remained, which now is widely known as Church of San Cataldo.
