Palermo, San Giovanni del Eremiti

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1932  

etching and aquatint printed in colors 

11 3/4 x 15 3/4" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

6 impressions 

pencil titled, in lower left; also inscribed at lower sheet edge: "printed a 6"; bears the red FPC collector's stamp in the lower left; from the collection of Friedl Pollak 

 

ivory simille vellum 

published 

artist 

22554 

$750.00 

In Palermo, San Giovanni del Eremiti, Pollak depicts the bell tower and the bright red hemispherical domes of the twelfth century Catholic church situated in Palmero, the capital of the Italian island of Sicily. The church was rebuilt in 1132 according to the canons of Sicilian-Norman architecture, it is a Romanesque church and externally resembles oriental buildings. Since 2015, the church has been part of the World Heritage Site (UNESCO) in the "Arab-Norman itinerary of Palermo, Cefalù and Monreale".