Villino Florio: Exterior view

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 view of the corner with stairs.