7-02 - The Archangel Gabriel, detail from the Annunciation, Martorana Church, Palermo
The Martorana church in Palermo, the original name: Church of St. Mary of the Admiral. Built in the mid 12th century is an exemple of the perfect cross-in-square plan and preserves one of the most refind complex of bizanine mosaics from the classical bizantine period, the Komnenian.