# Villino Florio: Exterior view [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BASILE, Ernesto]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary Basile combined current European ideas with the revival of 'Sicilian styles'. Among other Sicilian elements, he drew on Norman domes, Islamic profiles, Catalan-Gothic tracery and Baroque marbling. For the exteriors of his buildings, he borrowed heavily from 15th-century motifs, as at Villino Florio, Palermo \(1907-09\). Here influences from Matteo Carnelivari \(active c. 1490\), a master mason of whose work he had made carefully measured drawings \(1895-96\), was particularly important. The photo shows the façade with the entrance of the building. ## Related artworks - [Art Nouveau dining set]() - [Cappella Lanza di Scalea]() - [Cassa di Risparmio: façade]() - [Chair]() - [Chiosco Ribaudo]() - [Hotel Villa Igiea: ballroom]() - [Hotel Villa Igiea: exterior view]() - [Hotel Villa Igiea: view from the garden]() - [Hotel Villa Igiea: view from the garden]() - [Hotel Villa Igiea: view from the harbour]() - [Palazzo Montecitorio: backside view]() - [Palazzo Montecitorio: backside view]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()