Yes, "wow" is what I said to myself as I rounded a corner in Florence off the Via Roma. It was the "Duomo," Santa Maria del Fiore"...the most famous of its many churches. And, though, I had read about it...just finishing a book on the building of its dome by Brunelleschi (author Ross King, subtitled "How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture")...I was unprepared for the sight.
It was not so much the dome as
the incredible use of the three colors of marble: green, red and white...the white coming from the same quarry where Michelangelo got the stone for his David...
I had never seen anything so ornamented on this scale before...
Nor do I expect I will after...
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