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  1. There are 52 stained glass windows inside the Florence Cathedral. There are eight stained glass windows beneath the dome. They were designed between 1434 and 1445 by significant artists like Donatello, Ghiberti, Castango and Uccello. Also, the Cathedral has 44 stained glass windows spanning over five-meter in diameter.

  2. The Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence possesses the largest brick dome in the world, and is considered a masterpiece of European architecture.. Filippo di ser Brunellesco di Lippo Lapi (1377 – 15 April 1446), commonly known as Filippo Brunelleschi (/ ˌ b r uː n ə ˈ l ɛ s k i / BROO-nə-LESK-ee, Italian: [fiˈlippo brunelˈleski]) and also nicknamed Pippo by Leon Battista ...

  3. The dome is an absolute masterpiece of art, enchanting the world since the moment of its creation: the symbol of Florence, of Renaissance culture, and of all Western humanism. The dome was built between 1420 and 1436 to a plan by Filippo Brunelleschi , and is still the largest masonry vault in the world.

  4. The Last Judgment in the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, in Florence, Italy is a fresco painting which was begun by the Italian Renaissance master Giorgio Vasari in 1572 and completed after his death by Federico Zuccari, in 1579. Initially commissioned by Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, it is located on the ceiling of the dome of the ...

  5. David is a masterpiece [1] [2] of Italian Renaissance sculpture, created from 1501 to 1504 by Michelangelo. With a height of 5.17 metres (17 ft 0 in), the David was the first colossal marble statue made in the early modern period following classical antiquity, a precedent for the 16th century and beyond. David was originally commissioned as one ...

  6. Archdiocese of Florence. The Basilica di Santa Croce ( Italian for 'Basilica of the Holy Cross') is a minor basilica and the principal Franciscan church of Florence, Italy. It is situated on the Piazza di Santa Croce, about 800 metres southeast of the Duomo, on what was once marshland beyond the city walls. Being the burial place of some of the ...

  7. Vedere a fațadei Domului Santa Maria del Fiore din Florența, Italia, având în dreapta clopotnița (Campanile) lui Giotto.. Domul Santa Maria del Fiore (în italiană Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore) din Florența, Italia, este catedrala (în italiană, Duomo) Arhidiocezei Romano-Catolice a Florenței, cunoscută și recunoscută pentru arhitectura sa, și mai ales, pentru domul său ...

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