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Notes on video lecture:
Reading a City's Skyline: Florence
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on March 15, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
town, shared, meet, lives, dukes, datum, religious, Giotto, monastic, market, diagram, old, decided, Fiore, Medici, ordinary, fabric, hierarchy, 1296, banking, bell, 1436, palaces, Popes, Duomo, European
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a city's skyline
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tells something about the city's values and                   
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traditional                  city
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clear diagram of
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what was                 
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what the                could rise above the skyline
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below the skyline
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the              of life
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where everyone            and works
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whether you are the wealthiest or the poorest, your building operates as part of that           
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above the skyline
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buildings that have particular political or                    significance
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church and          tower
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         hall and bell tower
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Florence
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below the skyline: the datum
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humble houses
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                 complexes
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church buildings of various kinds
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above the skyline: what is highlighted
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Cattedrale di Santa Maria del           
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main church of Florence
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         begun
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         completed structurally
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located in Piazza del           
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Florence Baptistery
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            's Campanile (bell tower)
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town hall
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as you approach Florence
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you see what the city values
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these high buildings were used to call people together to         
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they both have bell towers that are high and thus can be heard
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             family made dome for their tombs
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originally an Italian                family
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the family became very important
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made themselves            of the city
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became a kind of nobility
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produced three            of the Catholic Church
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skyline represents a                of the city's hierarchy and values
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this is an        way of thinking about cities
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the skyline was a structure defining              values
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today we essentially allow              forces to define the skyline of the city

Flashcards:

main church in Florence
Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore
two other structures next to the main church in Florence
Florence Baptistery, Giotto's Campanile (bell tower)
Reading a City's Skyline: Florence