One of the statues over the Porcelain Museum in Florence's Boboli Gardens
The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church Duomo of Florence Italy begun in 1296 and with major construction completed in 1436 The basilica is notable for its dome designed by Filippo Brunelleschi its exterior facing of polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink bordered by white Duomo is a generic Italian term for a cathedral church The formal word for a church that is presently a cathedral is cattedrale a Duomo may be either a present or a former cathedral Such churches are usually referred to simply as Il Duomo or The Duomo without regard to the full proper name of the church According to the Oxford English Dictionary the word duomo derives from the Latin word domus meaning house as a cathedral is the house of God or domus Dei Italian cathedrals are often highly decorated and contain notable artworks in many cases the buildings themselves are true artworks
Size: 4096px × 6144px
Location: The Porcelain Museum, Boboli Gardens, Florence, Tuscany, Italy, Europe
Photo credit: © Joseph Paul Vancell / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., 19th-century, accents:, avenues, axial, blue, boboli, brown, built, bust, centered, century, city, classical, considerable, coordinated, detail, developed, development., developments, di, dukes, element, eleonora, employment, eu, expansive, familiar, florence, formal, fountains, garden, gardens, gardens., gold, grand, gravel, grottos, growth, incorporated, informed, isolotto, italian, italy, laid, lavish, longer, luxuriant, main, medici, mid-16th, naturalistic, neptune, nympheums, openness, palace, pitti, plant, pool:, porcelain, proliferation, public, rises, rose, sculpture, seat, semi-private, sixteenth, spaces, standing, statuary, statue, stone, style, temples, time., toledo, tuscany, unconventional, view, wide, wife
