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    Florence Cathedral, also known as Santa Maria del Fiore, is a typical example of Italian Gothic architecture. Arnolfo di Cambio expanded the previous building starting in 1245. The Duomo was finished in 1367 and covered in colored marble like the older Baptistery, though the facade remained unfinished until the 19th century. Filippo Brunelleschi designed and erected the cathedral's cupola between 1421-1436, proving his innovative building techniques. The interior of the massive cathedral gives a feeling of emptiness, with its soaring Gothic vaults covering a large space with minimal supports.

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    Florence Cathedral, also known as Santa Maria del Fiore, is a typical example of Italian Gothic architecture. Arnolfo di Cambio expanded the previous building starting in 1245. The Duomo was finished in 1367 and covered in colored marble like the older Baptistery, though the facade remained unfinished until the 19th century. Filippo Brunelleschi designed and erected the cathedral's cupola between 1421-1436, proving his innovative building techniques. The interior of the massive cathedral gives a feeling of emptiness, with its soaring Gothic vaults covering a large space with minimal supports.

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    Florence Cathedral, also known as Santa Maria del Fiore, is a typical example of Italian Gothic architecture. Arnolfo di Cambio expanded the previous building starting in 1245. The Duomo was finished in 1367 and covered in colored marble like the older Baptistery, though the facade remained unfinished until the 19th century. Filippo Brunelleschi designed and erected the cathedral's cupola between 1421-1436, proving his innovative building techniques. The interior of the massive cathedral gives a feeling of emptiness, with its soaring Gothic vaults covering a large space with minimal supports.

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    Florence Cathedral, also known as Santa Maria del Fiore, is a typical example of Italian Gothic architecture. Arnolfo di Cambio expanded the previous building starting in 1245. The Duomo was finished in 1367 and covered in colored marble like the older Baptistery, though the facade remained unfinished until the 19th century. Filippo Brunelleschi designed and erected the cathedral's cupola between 1421-1436, proving his innovative building techniques. The interior of the massive cathedral gives a feeling of emptiness, with its soaring Gothic vaults covering a large space with minimal supports.

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    A typical example of Italian Gothic, the architecture of Florence Cathedral, also known as

    Santa Maria del Fiore, hails from the initial project by Arnolfo di Cambio (1245-1302), who
    worked on the previous building, considerably expanding the structures.

    Finished in 1367, the Duomo was covered in coloured marble based on the example on the older
    Baptistery, with the exception of the facade that remained unfinished and was given its
    current appearance as late as the nineteenth century.

    The Cupola still had to be built, whose drum had been constructed in 1421. Lorenzo
    Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi proved the winners of the competition held among the
    city’s architects, but it was Brunelleschi who came up with the definitive plan and extraordinary
    technique with which the Cupola was erected, completed in 1436. The apses of the cathedral are
    clearly articulated from the exterior, and visitors should note the so-called Porta della
    Mandorla, which earns its name from the aureola encircling the figure of the Madonna in Nanni
    di Banco’s Assumption relief (1380-1421).

    Structurally, Santa Maria del Fiore is a basilica, although it is lacking the traditional axial  
    apses and instead has a rotund triconch closed at the east side. The church is shaped into three
    naves, divided by large pillars. At the base of the pillars the architectural elements begin,
    which culminate in the ogival vaults. The dimensions are enormous: 153 metres long and 38
    metres wide. The north and south apses are 90 metres apart. The simple and austere interior
    gives a distinct feeling of emptiness. The large Florentine bays (barely three metres lower than
    Beauvais Cathedral, the highest in French Gothic style) had to cover an immense space with very
    little in the way of support. The nave was designed as a room in which emptiness prevailed
    over the nevertheless considerable architectural elements. The rhythm of the supports is rather
    different to the stone forest that was typical in French Gothic. 

    Florence Cathedral is the first of its kind in terms of dimension and structure. Along the
    entire perimeter of the church there’s a gallery, at the height of the cross vault. The floor in
    multi-coloured marble was designed by Baccio d'Agnolo and continued, from 1526 to 1560,
    by his son Giuliano, Francesco da Sangallo and other masters (1520-26). During the restoration
    work following the 1966 flood, the discovery was made that some marbles taken from the
    unfinished façade, demolished at that time, had been used, upside down, in the floor.

    Among the artworks housed in the Cathedral, take a look, on the left wall, at the two frescoes
    representing the equine monuments of the mercenaries Giovanni Acuto and Niccolò da
    Tolentino, which were executed by, respectively, Paolo Uccello (1436) and Andrea del
    Castagno (1456.) Paolo Uccello is also responsible for the frescoed clock on the interior facade,
    with four robust heads of saints. The Cathedral’s sculptures still on show include the lunettes by
    Luca della Robbia placed over the doors to the Sacristy. Removed and housed in the Opera del
    Duomo Museum, you’ll find Michelangelo’s great Pietà (1553). Equally beautiful are
    the stained glass windows, mostly created between 1434-55, which follow designs by artists
    such as Donatello, Andrea del Castagno and Paolo Uccello. The inlaid wardrobes in the
    Sacristy, on the other hand, were made according to the designs of Brunelleschi, Antonio del
    Pollaiolo and others.
    The interior of the dome was frescoed between 1572-79 by Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574)
    and Federico Zuccari (ca. 1540-1609), and represents the Universal Judgement. As
    emblematic of Florence as Brunelleschi’s dome, is the bell tower known as Giotto’s Bell Tower.
    In fact, Giotto created the first project for the bell tower even if only the first register was
    finished before his death in 1337. Work continued under Andrea Pisano (ca. 1290-ca. 1349)
    and Francesco Talenti (active between 1325-1369) who brought the work to a close. 

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