Matteo Carnelivari

Matteo Carnelivari (flourished second half of 15th century, Noto, Sicily [Italy]) was an Italian architect who is considered the most refined exponent of 15th-century Sicilian architecture. He worked primarily in the city of Palermo. Carnelivari remained fundamentally faithful to the leading motifs of the 14th-century Norman style, considered as a solid and imposing equilibrium of the masses, but he enriched this approach with decorative elements taken from the Flamboyant style, from the Catalan Gothic, and...