{"id":2009,"date":"2021-12-07T21:27:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T02:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2021-12-07T21:27:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T02:27:22","slug":"12-7-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/2021\/12\/07\/12-7-class\/","title":{"rendered":"12\/7 Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Tuesday&#8217;s class we discussed urban planning in the context of Colby&#8217;s campus and the city of Florence.  Within Florence, we talked about the city hall and the Duomo.  I learned that the city hall was built before the Duomo and that it was built on the spot where the homes of the Uberti family used to stand.  This was done as a show of dominance by the Guelphs over the losing Ghibellines.  The building borrows details from defensive architecture, including the use of <em>pietra forte<\/em>, crenellations, and battlements.  What is interesting is that this building did not need this kind of protection at the time it was built, as indicated by the trefoiled arched windows.  All of these defensive details were added for the symbolism, not for protective purposes.  The Duomo is a landmark of Florence and is not far from the city hall.  The Cathedral is a massive architectural achievement and was designed by Brunelleschi.  The dome of the cathedral is the largest built since the pantheon, and this one has a unique octagonal shape that was inherited from the original floor plan.  I was also interested to learn that the building had both religious and civic meaning\u2014a child being baptized in the Duomo represented them entering the church <em>and<\/em> Florentine society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Tuesday&#8217;s class we discussed urban planning in the context of Colby&#8217;s campus and the city of Florence. Within Florence, we talked about the city hall and the Duomo. I learned that the city hall was built before the Duomo and that it was built on the spot where the homes of the Uberti family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2010,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar257-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}