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Il Magazine dell'Opera nasce per diffonderne la filosofia, far conoscere gli artisti e gli eventi che ne hanno contraddistinto la storia dal 1296.

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Sketch%20the%20dome — Oddities
January 18, 2018
Sketch the Dome: celebrate the Dome with your digital creation!
instagram
autography
contest
sketch the dome
The Opera del Duomo is launching an initiative combining its Autography App with Instagram and rewarding the best digital creations with an ad hoc exhibition held to mark the 600th anniversary of the call for tender for the Dome.
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Cla 8219 — Oddities
November 02, 2017
Share your memory of Florence: send a postcard to a friend with Autography!
autography
digital museum
brunelleschi's dome
postcard
Old postcards with its vintage appeal evolve in a new even more engaging format: with Autography, the Opera del Duomo App, you can create your own postcard and send it.
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Cupola — Oddities
July 27, 2017
Lightning, collapses and mysteries. Chronicle of Dome pains
cathedral
florence
brunelleschi's dome
Brunelleschi's dome, the ultimate symbol of wisdom and beauty, brings with it a long history of wounds, interventions and superstitions that have marked its existence.
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David — Oddities
August 23, 2016
A giant on the move: Michelangelo's David - part 2
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In the previous post we told the story of a Carrara marble block more than of a statue. But in 1501 - finally! - Michelangelo is at work on that block: the David is on its way.
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David — Oddities
August 16, 2016
A giant on the move: Michelangelo's David - part 1
renaissance
michelangelo
One of the most important works by Michelangelo (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, 1475 - 1564), the David statue, now one of the symbols of Renaissance and of Florence as well had quite a troubled history: the David started its “career” with two “reboots”, a thirtyseven years delay and a short but definitely dangerous and complicated journey…
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Vasari — Oddities
July 27, 2016
The (not completely) impossible interview to Giorgio Vasari about the Florence Cathedral
Giorgio Vasari
giotto's campanile
Do you really want to know more about the Florence Cathedral? And about Florence in The Renaissance? Well: ask whom was there, “in the making”! This post is an “interview” to Giorgio Vasari, the “father of art history”, a friend of Michelangelo and part of the Florentine arts establishment.
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Oddities
May 09, 2016
Florence cathedral visit: travel planning in the Dark Ages, Renaissance and pre-industrial age!
cathedral
dark ages
travel planning
via francigena
But can you imagine the hurdles that people had to face when the horse was the fastest means of land transport and low cost flights didn’t exist even in the most bizarre Leonardo’s dream? The history of the making of the Florence cathedral itself is influenced by extraordinary travels: travels of people, travels of ideas, and… travels of stones.
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Duomo%20di%20firenze%2c%20paolo%20uccello%2c%20orologio 4ne6029 — Oddities
May 06, 2016
Duomo di Firenze hours: stone calendars and upside - down clocks
cathedral
stone calendar
gnomon hole
Paolo Uccello
Santa Maria del Fiore is the Duomo (the Cathedral) of Florence. Ok: no news about that. But the Florence cathedral is somehow a stone calendar as well, and it houses a very...
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Leone — Oddities
April 29, 2016
Visiting the Florence Cathedral: snakes, lions and scorpions
renaissance
cathedral
baptistery
self-portrait
The Duomo is, literally, a masterpiece made of masterpieces. Some of that masterpieces captured the imagination of the Florentines, while others give a glimpse into the real life of the artists. So: while visiting the Florence Cathedral, enjoy the Florentine Renaissance but beware the animals!
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Antonio — Oddities
April 26, 2016
Renaissance Florence: Giorgio Vasari’s chronicles
renaissance
Giorgio Vasari
Le Vite
Giorgio Vasari is for many aspects the first “modern” art historian. But he was also a lot more than that, and, for sure, one of the most important witness of the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in its making and a privileged spectator of the Renaissance Florence.
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Ghiberti golden door — Oddities
January 11, 2016
Ghiberti’s Golden Door: one of the greatest masterpieces from the Renaissance
renaissance
Ghiberti
museum collection
When Michelangelo saw Lorenzo Ghiberti’s bronze doors for the Baptistery in Florence, he called them the Gates of Paradise.
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