Example sentences for: duomo

How can you use “duomo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Designed in the late 13th century by Arnolfo di Cambio (architect of the Palazzo Vecchio and the Duomo) but with a neo-Gothic façade added in 1863, the Franciscan church of Santa Croce (east of the Uffizi) has an important series of Giotto frescoes.

  • Begun after the Duomo in 1173, it began to lean when only three of its eight stories had been completed (the Duomo is also marginally off-kilter).

  • The area around the Piazza Duomo and the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele has plenty of smart, bright, and more moderately priced boutiques — generally for younger tastes.

  • The Piazza del Duomo forms a harmonious space for the graceful octagonal baptistery, begun in 1196, and the austere nobility of the 12th-century Romanesque cathedral and its 13th-century campanile.

  • In gentle contrast to the austere Italian Gothic exterior of the Palazzo Vecchio by Arnolfo di Cambio (architect of the Duomo), Vasari added ornate stucco and frescoes to the first inner courtyard for a Medici wedding in the 1560s (the palazzo served briefly as a Medici residence until they moved across the river to the Palazzo Pitti).


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