Cathedral+Chior+Enclosure


 * __ The Cathedral Choir Enclosure of the Duomo __**



In 1842, twenty-four panels were removed from the choir enclosure of the Duomo in Florence. This reduction was carried out by the architect Gaetano Baccani. The choir enclosure was originally built in 1547, on the orders of Duke Cosimo I, to replace a fifteenth-century dilapidated enclosure. Eighty-eight marble reliefs were created for the enclosure. The figures located below the choir depict the whiteness to the divine plan; these witnesses include prophets, apostles, and figures representing the pagan world (shown nude). The reliefs were used to frame the large sculptures above them on the alter. They are there to convey a message of "the truths intuitively perceived by the pagans, foretold by the profits, and proclaimed by the apostles take concrete form in Mass.”

Starting at the Ponte Vecchio, walk north on Via Por Santa Maria. Follow this road until you reach the Duomo. Take a right in the piazza before the Baptistery and follow the piazza around to the east side of it. The front of the Museo dell'Opera del //Duomo// is facing into the piazza on the east side//.//

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