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This programme offers an overview of the building of Florence Cathedral: it looks at the reasons for construction, the slowness of the building process and the iconography and decoration of the church.
This programme offers an overview of the building of Florence Cathedral: it looks at the reasons for construction, the slowness of the building process and the iconography and decoration of the church.
| Module code and title: | A201, Renaissance and Reformation |
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| Item code: | A201; 04 |
| First transmission date: | 04-03-1972 |
| Published: | 1972 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:00 |
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| Producer: | Mary Hoskins |
| Contributors: | David King; John Larner |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Architecture; Cathedrals; Florence |
| Footage description: | John Larner outlines the reasons for the building of the present cathedral, i.e. principally civic pride. 1. Shots of the cathedral (opening sequence) 2. Baptistery 3. Sienna cathedral 4. Orvieto cathedral 5. Family chapels of Santa Croce 6. Palazzo V/ecchio 7. Florence Cathedral. John Larner with the aid of an animated film reviews the stages of building. John Larner gives the reasons for the slow rate of building. Shots of city walls (and of Porta Romana) Shots of Triumph of Death. shots of Cathedral. John Larner now outlines another reason for the slowness of construction-the building techniques of the time. There he describes. Shots of campanile and the sketch plan by Giotto. Shots of facade and it's sketch plan. Fresco: Church triumphant. Shots of dome. John Lamer now looks at the iconography and decoration of the church and analyses the degree of secularisation in the building of the church that the decoration demonstrates. Cathedral - opening sequence campanile reliefs by Pisano. Cathedral interior. Uccello's memorial to Sir John Hawkwood. Memorials to Sicino, Bruneileschi, Dante. Gromon (meridian) of Paolo Tascanelli. |
| Master spool number: | 6LT/70568 |
| Production number: | 00521_2307 |
| Videofinder number: | 2494 |
| Available to public: | no |
