The Duomo's magnificent dome with white and green marble facade, lights up the old city of Florence. During this episode, Sabine Frommel, a historian specialising in the Renaissance, reveals the vast cathedral's construction secrets, the largest ever built at the time and intended to show the superiority of the city of Florentine facing Pisa and Siena. We will also meet Duomo's current key players; professional sculptors in charge of the continuing restoration of the building, worshipers who attend the parish, and the choir who sing the sacred music that sends vibrations through the interior of this holy monument. 24 hours were spent in one of the most beautiful cathedrals in the world, the walls of which are adorned with the works of the grandmasters of the Renaissance: Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci...

Documentary: Wonders of Men : Italy, Duomo of Florence (2019)
Directed by: Bruno Victor-Pujebet & Delphine Cohen
Production: ZED

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