Introduction: Since the late 3rd century, the governments, guilds and wealthy businessmen of Florence and China have been keen on building churches, government buildings and private houses in order to improve the reputation of Florence and the pride of citizens. Notre Dame de Paris is one of the most famous buildings.

As early as the 4th and 5th centuries, a cathedral was built in Florence. /kloc-at the end of 0/3 century, the Florence government decided to tear down the old cathedral and build a more magnificent cathedral of Notre Dame on the original site to show the diligence and strength of human beings. The Florence government hired famous architects to design and supervise the construction of the cathedral. The walls of the cathedral are all made of bricks, and the outside is decorated with white, green and pink marble. The whole church is rectangular, with a slender nave between the facade and the altar, four ear chambers on each side of the nave, and an octagonal huge drum stand on the altar, which is planned to be covered with a large dome. However, at that time, no architect could build such a big dome. 14 18 The Florence government decided to invite tenders. Famous architect Fei Li Bo? Brunelleschi won the bid for the design scheme, and he was appointed as the designer and construction director of the big dome. He adopted a new construction method and finally built a large dome. Later, he began to preside over the work of adding a small steeple to the dome until it was completed in 147 1 year.

Uffizi Museum

Introduction: 1560, medici family decided to build an office building for the 13 administrative officials in Florence as the administrative center of * * * and China. He appointed George, a famous painter and architect at that time. The project designed and built by vasari was not completed until 158 1. This is the famous Uffizi Palace. In order to build Florence into a European cultural and artistic center, medici family not only built an opera house and a library in the palace, but also closed the corridor on the second floor with big windows, and built an office on the second floor of the East Wing of uffizi Palace to display the classical statues, badges, ancient coins, jewels, weapons, paintings and scientific instruments collected by medici family in past dynasties. This is the uffizi Museum.

Over the centuries, the uffizi Museum has been restored many times, and now it has 45 exhibition halls and 65,438+0,700 paintings, including Leonardo da Vinci's Angels, Raphael's Madonna, Botticelli's The Birth of Venus and The Picture of the Spring God. There are 300 sculptures, more than 4,000 jewels,14,000 metal products and 46 tapestries in uffizi Museum, which is an art treasure house in Europe and even the world.

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The history textbook of People's Education Edition is the optional course 6, Collection of World Cultural Heritage.