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Arnolfo di Cambio, in the niche beside Brunelleschi

Name: Arnolfo di Cambio, in the niche beside Brunelleschi
Item: Piazza del Duomo
Rating: 4
Author: Aiko Tanaka

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Piazza del Duomo·Florence, Italy

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The cathedral was Arnolfo's design — he began it in 1296, more than a century before Brunelleschi solved the dome. They sit in matching niches on the south wall now: Arnolfo holding his plans, Brunelleschi a few metres along, looking up at the result. He doesn't get the same crowd.