First things first, it may or may not be called Il Duomo. I think the real name is much longer but I’m tired, so here we are. Please don’t tell my architecture professors.
We went into The Duomo, to the top of its dome and through a museum about it today. It’s safe to say we’re well acquainted. As with most things built roughly a millennium ago, what they did should just not have been possible. We climbed to the top of a roughly 700 year old dome today that at the time wasn’t believed to be possible yet still stands today as strong and sure as anything ever built. Our house was constructed around the time Chandler and Monica were getting together and it could already use some work. #perspective
Shots here will be a mix of items from within the cathedral (which by the way still holds mass 3x daily), atop the dome and from within its museum; where much of the façade and other adornments have been moved for preservation. Man seems to be forever reaching to achieve far beyond its means. Back then it was about structures built at scales that should have buckled even the most idealistic of knees. Today we’re working on cars that drive themselves without also texting selfies to each other. I think the big difference is that today we’re focused on solving problems, back then it was mostly about posturing and killing time until Netflix is invented. Bob Dylan will be forever correct about “the times”.
