Friday, June 24, 2016

The Duoma brought to life

I've never been to a museum that focuses only on a church. This modern museum just opened in 2015. The story of the cathedral is astonishing!!! All the sculptors, craftsmen, artists, architects and visionaries are honored -as well as giving us an inspiration to climb to the top of the cupola. Exhausting-but it didn't take 190 years!
To see the masterpieces up so close and view both the ceiling from the balcony and the ceiling of the baptistery made all my art history lectures come alive.

1 comment:

  1. chuck pyleJune 26, 2016 at 1:39 AM

    A breathtaking experience in every possible sense. I loved that the doomed soul was right there in our (small) faces as we trudged our way up

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