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The Duomo II: Its Associations Chapter III

For the Baptistery is also coloured marble without, yet within it is coloured marble and mosaic too: there is no disparity; whereas in the Duomo the walls have a Northern grey and the columns are brown.

When all is said the chief merit of the Duomo is this immensity.

Vasari has it that Arnolfo was assisted on the Duomo by Cimabue; but that is doubtful.

And here I leave the Duomo, with the counsel to visitors to Florence to make a point of entering it every daynot, as so many Florentines do, in order to make a short cut from the Via Calzaioli to the Via de' Servi, and vice versâ, but to gather its spirit.

It stood in front of the Duomo some four yards from the Baptistery gates in a line with the Duomo's central doors and the high altar.

In the ordinary way, when visitors to Florence speak of the Baptistery doors they mean those opposite the Duomo, and when they go to the Bargello and look at the designs made by Ghiberti and Brunelleschi in competition, they think that the competition was for those.

The famous doors opposite the Duomo were commissioned many years later, when his genius was acknowledged and when he had become so accomplished as to do what he liked with his medium.

It is true that he did a few other things besides, such as the casket of S. Zenobius in the Duomo, and the Baptist and S. Matthew for Or San Michele; but he may be said justly to live by his doors, and particularly by the second pair, although it was the first pair that had the greater effect on his contemporaries and followers.

But for us not yet; because in order to understand Florence, and particularly the Florence that existed between the extreme dates that I have chosen as containing the fascinating periodnamely 1296, when the Duomo was begun, and 1564, when Michelangelo diedone must understand who and what the Medici were.

To this palace came the Pazzi conspirators to lure Giuliano to the Duomo and his doom.

The first of the Medici family to rise to the highest power was Giovanni d'Averardo de' Medici (known as Giovanni di Bicci), 1360-1429, who, a wealthy banker living in what is now the Piazza del Duomo, was well known for his philanthropy and interest in the welfare of the Florentines, but does not come much into public notice until 1401, when he was appointed one of the judges in the Baptistery door competition.

The village being only three miles from Florence, from it the boy could see the city very much as we see it nowits Duomo, its campanile, with the same attendant spires.

As we know, the scheme was not carried out, but in 1520 the Pope substituted another and more attractive one: namely, a chapel to contain the tombs not only of his father the Magnificent, and his uncle, who had been murdered in the Duomo many years before, but also his nephew Piero de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, who had just died, in 1519, and his younger brother (and Michelangelo's early playmate)

But Florence at any rate has two marble masterpieces that belong to the later periodthe Brutus in the Bargello and the Pietà in the Duomo, which we have seenthat poignantly impressive rendering of the entombment upon which the old man was at work when he died, and which he meant for his own grave.

Let us now proceed along the Via Calzaioli (which means street of the stocking-makers), running away from the Piazza del Duomo to the Piazza della Signoria.

This, more than the Piazza del Duomo, is the centre of Florence.

It was begun by Arnolfo, the architect of the Duomo and S. Croce, at the end of the thirteenth century, that being, as we have seen, a period of great prosperity and ambition in Florence, but many alterations and additions were madeby Michelozzo, Cronaca, Vasari, and othersto bring it to what it now is.

The ancient palace on the Duomo side of the piazza is attributed in design to Raphael, who, like most of the great artists of his time, was also an architect and was the designer of the Palazzo Pandolfini in the Via San Gallo, No. 74.

His fame was sufficient in Florence in 1491 for him to be made one of the judges of the designs for the façade of the Duomo.

The picture in the Duomo was placed there in 1465.

As a change from picture galleries, I can think of nothing more delightful than to wander about these ancient streets, and, wherever a courtyard or garden shines, penetrate to it; stopping now and again to enjoy the vista, the red Duomo, or Giotto's tower, so often mounting into the sky at one end, or an indigo Apennine at the other.

The hospital stands in a rather forlorn square a few steps from the Duomo, down the Via dell' Orivolo and then the first to the left; and it extends right through to the Via degli Alfani in cloisters and ramifications.

Add to these the fluid vigour of the unfinished relief of the Martyrdom of S. Andrew, No. 126, and you have five examples of human accomplishment that would be enough without the other Florentine evidences at allthe Medici chapel tombs and the Duomo Pieta.

He is to be seen in the Uffizi portico, although that is probably a fancy representation; and again on a tablet in the wall opposite the apse of the Duomo.

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