Dome of Florence Cathedral

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Architecture · 1420–1436 · Florence · Europe

The largest masonry dome since Rome, built without centring as a double shell

Dome of Florence Cathedral — Petar Milošević · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Author: Filippo Brunelleschi
Style: Italian Renaissance — Antiquity measured anew: linear perspective, anatomy and proportion as the measure of man
Century: 15th century

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