Well I'm doing my assigned blog on the Florence Cathedral. The name of the architect of this design was Arnolfo di Cambio. The building type was a domed church. The construction typer was bearing masonry. It was a great advancement of contructing during the rennisance period and its works are known all over the world for being one of the best.
Construction started on this bad boy in 1296 when a heck of a guy thought he could build himself one dang good cathedral. Of course he never saw the construction all the way through ha never works out that way because he flopped over and well yeah he got put 6 foot under unless the couldnt dig that far back then mighta only been a foot or so with some rocks or maybe cement if that was invented then. But anyhow a new guy had to come along and finish this great masterpiece. This fellas name was Filippo Brunelleschi. Boy cant wait to pronounce that in class. But this man saw this cathedral through completion in 1436. But this man only really constructed the dome which was a pretty tough deal so hey give the guy some credit and quit hatin on them italian which i guess i dont care. We went to war with em in world war two so who cares. Actually i wonder if the cathedral got damaged during that war. Going to have to ask our great teacher. ha boy i crack myself up with my jokes. The exterior of the cathedral was whats called gothic revival and this was designed by Emilio De Febres.
The cathedral complex is located in Piazza De Duomo. There are three buildings to the cathedral but they are all in one. All of these are under a world heritage site. This is a very heavily attracted by tourist in present day. Especially the tourist coming to see Tuscany, Italy. Once the dome was finish constructed it was the largest in the world. However that is now changed because there are some bigger these days. Which makes sense were in a greety society and heck all we want iss more more more all the time we can never slow down and enjoy what we got man. I like life in the 50s everyone is just happy as ever in Iowa anyhow and we all just get along just swell what happened to that America? Well i dont even want an answer i just wished i lived back in the good ole days ha.
The florence cathedral to this day is still the largest brick dome ever constructed. Thats pretty cool that how old this building is no one has ever constructed one bigger. It was built on a site in dedication to an earlier cathedral called Saint Reparata. It was built in the 5th century and after years it eventually crumbled for being so old and not made to last as long as these new buildings. The first stone of this cathedral was laid by Cardinal Valeriana which was the first papal legate to come to Florence. It was said to take 140 years to complete but took so much londer becuase of a lot of deaths and different outbreaks of death greatly contibuted to the long completion.
A lot of troubles were ran into when it came to the construction of the dome. It was to be made all of brick and it was and octagonal dome. To the average person its a dome with 8 sides. Many arts in the interior of the church have been lost or given to museums. The catherdral had 44 stained glass windows which was the most out of any cathedrals in the 14th and 15 centuries. It also has many different statues and paintings inside. The greatest painting being of Christ's Ressurection. Well thats my dealli whopper. Hope youve enjoyed it and ill be here all week for your laughing needs. Keep your stick on ya guys cya later.
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