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This is exactly why I love my new wide-angle lens! It enables you to play with composition and perspective more then a regular lens, and get close to your subject.
Tourists were getting in the most awkward positions to photograph the façade of 'Il Duomo' plus the campanile next to it, but not me!
Again amazing stripes, darks & lights like the 'Duomo di Siena'
"[In 1417] the wardens of works of Santa Maria del Fiore called a congress of local architects and engineers to discuss how to raise the cupola...Filippo's advice was that they should construct a frieze thirty feet high, with a large round window in each of its sides, since this would take the weight off the supports of the tribunes." I-144
"There were some who suggested that the best method would be to fill it with a mixture of earth and coins so that when it was raised those who wanted could help themselves to the earth, and in that way they would quickly remove it all without expense. Filippo alone said it could be raised without a great deal of woodwork, without piers or earth." I-145
"The wardens said that his ideas were as mad as he was. Filippo took offence at this and said: 'What is necessary is that the cupola should be turned with the curve of a pointed arch and made double, with one vault inside and the other outside so that a man can walk upright between them..I can already envisage the complete vaulting and I know there is no way of doing it other than as I'm explaining.'" I-145
"As to how beautiful the edifice is, it is its own witness. From ground level to the lantern the height is 308 feet, the body of the lantern is 72 feet, the copper ball is eight feet, the cross sixteen feet, and the whole is 404 feet; and it can confidently be asserted that the ancients never built to such a height nor risked challenging the sky itself." I-160
Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore. Florence.
Meri Amber explored Milan, Italy, going to the fashion district, inide the Duomo and into a Milan historic tea house. www.meriamber.com/blog/2013/07/day-due-in-italia/
A look at the top of the Baptistery doors and the reproduction of the sculpture The Baptism of Christ.
Moverse por Florencia es practicamente imposible ya que su casco antiguo o centro de la ciudad es en su totalidad peatonal, solo para los residentes y servicios publico esta permitido. Asi que lo mejor es moverse en uno de estos.
Meri Amber explored Milan, Italy, going to the fashion district, inide the Duomo and into a Milan historic tea house. www.meriamber.com/blog/2013/07/day-due-in-italia/
Meri Amber's first day in Italy on her Uku Italy trip was FULL of exciting adventures, including wandering the streets of Milan, seeing the Duomo, visiting the novecento art gallery of modern art and having a real Italian dinner with Patrick's Italian family. www.meriamber.com/blog/2013/07/first-day-in-italia/
That's how many statues are on top of this structure.
3400.
Want to know something else cool about it?
It's made of marble, carried from over 100 miles away.
By hand.
Saw this little guy in Milan.
Il Duomo Square
Meri Amber's first day in Italy on her Uku Italy trip was FULL of exciting adventures, including wandering the streets of Milan, seeing the Duomo, visiting the novecento art gallery of modern art and having a real Italian dinner with Patrick's Italian family. www.meriamber.com/blog/2013/07/first-day-in-italia/
Meri Amber explored Milan, Italy, going to the fashion district, inide the Duomo and into a Milan historic tea house. www.meriamber.com/blog/2013/07/day-due-in-italia/