three meters long florence cathedral remains the full flutist church in the world but back then it was number one. by the time it s forty five meter diameter dome was completed it sets a world record george of us ari an artist and architect began work on the four thousand square metre fresco in its interior which was to rival michelangelo s last judgment. but the salaries figures on lost in the heights of the. visitors below can barely see them. in fourteen eighteen more than one hundred years after its construction began the cathedral dome had not been built. and no one in the middle ages had the knowledge to solve the structural and technical problems. filippo burlesque took on the task.