The tribunes, and possibly also the drum for the dome, were built between 13.įrom August 6th the digital Covid health certificate, or Green Pass, is mandatory to visit the Cathedral. The nave was fully vaulted by 1378 and the side aisles by 1380. The competition was won by four architects and four painters, including Andrea di Bonaiuto, Benci and Andrea di Cione, Taddeo Gaddi and Neri di Fioravante.įrancesco Talenti held the post of master of the works from 1349 to 1359, completing the bell tower and preparing a new design with the assistance of Giovanni di Lapo Ghini (from 1360 to 1369). Work continued, despite constant interruptions, until a competition was finally run in 1367. His post was filled by Andrea Pisano until 1348, the year of the Black Death which slashed the city's population from 90,000 to 45,000.
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Giotto was appointed master of the works in 1334, devoting most of his time to the erection of the bell tower but he died three years later. Work on the building site slowed down when Arnolfo died in around 1310, only resuming for good in 1331 when the magistrates of the Arte della Lana, or Guild of Wool Manufacturers and Merchants, took over responsibility for the building. The facade was dismantled in 1587 when the Grand Duke Francesco I de 'Medici decided to build a new modern one and the surviving statues that decorated it are now on display in the Museum.
#Santa maria windows
If we look at the northern and southern sides of the building, we will note that the first four windows on each side are lower, narrower and closer together than those to the east of them, which are part of an extension built by Francesco Talenti who was master of the works in the mid-14th century.Īrnolfo managed to complete two bays and half of the new façade. Arnolfo worked on the cathedral from 1296 to 1302, designing a basilica with classical volumes based on three broad aisles converging in a vast choir hosting the high altar, itself surrounded by tribunes subsequently crowned by a dome.Īrnolfo's design was substantially different from the church's current structure, as we can see from the outside.
The first stone of the façade was laid on 8 September 1296 to a design by Arnolfo di Cambio. The numerous different styles that we encounter in the building bear witness to changing tastes over the long period of time that elapsed between its foundation and its completion. It was built over the second cathedral, which early Christian Florence had dedicated to St. The third and last cathedral of Florence, it was dedicated to Santa Maria del Fiore, the Virgin of the Flower, in 1412, a clear allusion to the lily, the symbol of the city of Florence. It is 153 metres long, 90 metres wide at the crossing, and 90 metres high from the floor to the bottom of the lantern. Paul's in London) and was the largest church in Europe when it was completed in the 15th century. Santa Maria del Fiore, designed by Arnolfo di Cambio, is the third largest church in the world (after St.
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