I prefer the Campo dei Miracoli (Pisa). the Duomo in Florence was conceived when the Florentines found out about the one being constructed in Siena, which was to the largest building in christendom, outstripping Hagia Sophia. the Sienese Duomo was never finished and the Cathedral there today, is only one-fourth the size it was meant to be.
If the base around the dome looks unfinished, it is. One side was completed (covering the raw bricks) but Michelangelo objected, saying the one side completed “looked like cricket cages”. It was never completed.
I wish they *would* finish it. The gallery needs to be completed to stop it looking like a scar on the dome. Who cares about a spiteful remark from Michelangelo 500 years ago, especially as he probably never said it... And what is so specifically ugly about cricket cages, which no-one has used for centuries anyway.?
@@steelcrown7130 I agree I felt that way all my life. I’ve been visiting Florence for almost half a century. Finish the damn thing…….. Why doesn’t some benevolent Italian supply the funds?
@@kenboydart Beats me - if the Florentines can complete the facades to Santa Croce and the Duomo in the nineteenth century, and people simply accept them as part of the visual ensemble, and if the Milanese can do the same for their Duomo - which now has one of the most beautiful and respected facades in Italy - FINISHED IN 1965 - then why on Earth can't they do the same for the gallery/drum of the dome? SO refreshing to meet a like mind on the Internet!
This clip repeats the same old garbage about the Church beimg antiscience. Let me correct it. Ptolemy of Alexandria Ptolemaic system, mathematical model of the universe formulated by the Alexandrian astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy about 150 CE. He was not a Christian. Ptolemy argued that the Earth was a sphere in the center of the universe, from the simple observation that half the stars were above the horizon and half were below the horizon at any time (stars on rotating stellar sphere), and the assumption that the stars were all at some modest distance from the center of the universe. If the Earth were substantially displaced from the center, this division into visible and invisible stars would not be equal. Florence Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Firenze), formally the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower (Italian: Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore [katteˈdraːle di ˈsanta maˈriːa del ˈfjoːre]), is the cathedral of Florence, Italy. It was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to a design of Arnolfo di Cambio and was structurally completed by 1436, with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. Copernicus lived after the completion of the duomo in Florence. The clip makes a false assertion about the light of the cathedral floor as it was based on observation of the movement of the sun in the sky, not any theory of where the sun is in relation to the earth. The writer of the script reasons incorrectly. Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 - 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic priest (canon), who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. In all likelihood. Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 - 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei a devout Catholic championing of Copernican heliocentrism was met with opposition from within the Catholic Church and from some astronomers because he taught it as a fact not a theory. Because Galileo did not know about elliptical orbits his theory was in error as unlike Ptolemy heliocentric theory, it could not explain the change in seasons. Gallileo also did not know the earth was titled. The scientific academics therefore as is normal in science kept to the earlier theory ir remained questioning. It was Johannes Kepler (born December 27, 1571, Weil der Stadt, Württemberg [Germany]-died November 15, 1630, whose discoveries turned Nicolaus Copernicus’s Sun-centred system into a dynamic universe, with the Sun actively pushing the planets around in noncircular orbits. And it was Kepler’s notion of a physical astronomy that fixed a new problems for other important 17th-century world-system builders, such as Sir Isaac Newton, who postulated theories on gravity and motion.
So much information... yet one forgets that Galileo was imprisoned and forced to abjure his theories, by the Church itself. His daughter was a nun. But no wonder, not being Catholic was practically illegal, no matter if you was a scientist. Many scientists were religious as their first occupation, simply because for some it was the only access to education and study. The Church stacked with the old theory not because the seasons issue, but because it was just convenient for their aims. What Kepler discovered is an extension of the previous knowledge, and, perfect as they were, however and the Catholic Church did not recognise them as valid until 1822, making the dissemination of those theories legal until 1848. Shall we talk about Giordano Bruno?... Better not. The Church has been and still is politically anti-scientific, despite enjoying scholars and technological breakthroughs, practically all along. Any religion is anti-scientific, simply for reasons intrinsic to the very nature of religions. You should try to redefine your conception of garbage, because it's seems that you are not able to recognized what garbage really is. Or maybe you just don't want to. I'm born and raised as a catholic: intellectual honesty has never been, and never will be a theological virtue, I can assure you that, yet at the same time mankind desperately need it.
