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Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence (IL DUOMO), AD 1471

From: Tom Mueller and Dave Yoder, "Brunelleschi's Dome", National Geographic Magazine (NGM), Vol. 225, No. 2, February 2014.

Source for this slide:
Riccardo Dalla Negra of the University of Ferrara

Text by A.R. Williams and NGM staff:
"This landmark dome helped inaugurate a new era of structures conceived by architects, not builders. In tribute to his pioneering design, Brunelleschi was buried in the cathedral's crypt.

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