Duomo di Firenze, Tuscany, Italy: red-tiled roofs and walkway, together with oculi and white marble. At the top of the image is part of the rough brick base left on seven sides of the cathedral’s octagonal dome, designed by Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 - 1446).
Florence, Tuscany, Italy: oculi and white marble below rough brick at the base of the dome of the Duomo di Firenze or Florence Cathedral, together with red-tiled Duomo roofs and exterior walkway. The dome, built between 1420 and 1436 to a plan by Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 - 1446), is the largest masonry vault in the world with an external diameter of metres ( feet) and an interior diameter of metres (149 feet). In 1507, Baccio d’Agnolo (1462 - 1543) began adding a balcony to the base of the dome. A balcony on one of the dome’s eight sides was finished by 1515, but when Michelangelo scoffed at its appearance work was halted. To this day, seven sides of the dome’s base remain rough brick. The cathedral was begun in 1296 to a design by Arnolfo di Cambio (c. 1240 - 1302) and completed in 1436. In 1418, the Opera del Duomo announced a public competition for construction of the dome. It was agreed that Brunelleschi would be superintendent of the project, with Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378 - 1455), Brunelleschi’s fellow goldsmith, as co-superintendent. The two men had been rivals since 1401 when they both vied for the Florentine Baptistery bronze doors commission, won by Ghiberti.
Size: 2831px × 2831px
Location: Cathedral, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
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