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DOME OF FLORENCE CATHEDRAL
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Brunelleschi designed a dome(1420~36) to crown the 14thcentury
Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore: it had remained incomplete,
with a huge octagonal opening that posed enormous constructional
problems. Although Brunelleschi wentto Rome with the sculptor
Donatello to study classical buildings, the dome is largely Gothic
in character, built around a self-supporting masonry of eight main ribs.
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