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Flight of Fancy: The Galleria degli Uccelli in the Palazzo Biscari, Catania
By Kathleen M. Bennett
Independent Scholar
The arrival of design sources promoting the new rococo style in Sicily in the mid-1700s heralded a new chapter in the island’s architectural vocabulary, which was previously grounded in baroque taste.