Hubbry Logo
search
search button
Sign in
Historyarrow-down
starMorearrow-down
Welcome to the community hub built on top of the Francesco Talenti Wikipedia article. Here, you can discuss, collect, and organize anything related to Francesco Talenti. The purpose of the hub is to connect people, foster deeper knowledge, and help improve the root Wikipedia article.
Add your contribution
Inside this hub
Francesco Talenti
Talenti's work on the Campanile: the two middle storeys and the upper tower shaft

Francesco Talenti (c. 1300 – aft. 1369) was a Tuscan architect and sculptor who worked mainly in Florence after 1351. He is mentioned working at Orvieto Cathedral in 1325. In the 1350s he completed the two middle storeys of Giotto's Campanile, and two doorways, the Porta dei Cornacchini and the Porta del Campanile, respectively in the north and south sides of the Florentine Duomo. In 1351 he succeeded Andrea Pisano as director of works of the cathedral. The cathedral's famous dome is first mentioned in 1357, but opinions differ whether Talenti was responsible for its inclusion or not. Talenti enlarged its structure by redesigning the apses and prolonging the nave, making the church the largest ever built in Europe so far.

References

[edit]
Add your contribution
Related Hubs