Base of octagonal dome of Florence cathedral in Tuscany, Italy, where, in 1507, Baccio d’Agnolo (1462 - 1543) began adding a balcony. By 1515, a balcony on one of the dome’s eight sides had been completed but, when Michelangelo scoffed at its appearance, work was halted. To this day, seven sides of the dome’s base remain rough brick.
Florence, Tuscany, Italy: oculi and white marble below rough brick at the base of the dome of the Duomo di Firenze or Florence Cathedra. 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.
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Location: Cathedral, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
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