ARHI 203 Lecture 3: Lecture 3 Week 2
23 Jan 2016
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Cathedrals in italian are referred to as duomos Comes from latin word domus = house o. Duomo, therefore refers to house of god or house of the bishop o. Conceived as both a religious space - a link between religion and state. A tax was imposed on personal property to fund the cathedral o. We will focus on the doors of the florence baptistery. We will focus on the doors that were commissioned for the florence. The baptistery itself was finished in the years prior to the timeline of. 1330"s the guild in charge of the decoration of the baptistery commissioned a grand set of doors for the south of the baptistery to. 28 quatrefoils (the floral shape frame) o o o. The top 20 quatrefoils tell the story of john the baptist. The bottom 8 are allegorical representations of virtues.
