Name
Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore
Type
Corporate Body
Dates
1296–
Places
Firenze
History
Lay body charged with the construction, maintenance and administration of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. It engaged and supervised the workforce, awarded contracts and kept the registers of deliberations and accounts of the fabric.
Identity
- Other forms of name
- Opera del Duomo di Firenze; Opera di Santa Reparata
Description
- Functions and occupations
- Cathedral fabric administration; Building administration
- Mandates / source of authority
- Committed to the Arte della Lana and later to civic and ecclesiastical oversight.
Relationships
- Related resources
- Registri dell’Opera, Archivio dell’Opera del Duomo, Firenze
Access points
- Place
- Firenze
- Occupation
- Fabric administration
Control
- Record identifier
- EG-AR-OPERA-SMF
- Cataloguer
- Nicolae Munteanu
- Rules / conventions
- ISAAR(CPF), 2nd ed.
- Status
- Final
- Level of detail
- Full
- Dates of revision
- 2026-08-28
- Sources
- Institutional outline compiled from general reference works for the EuroGloss demonstration dataset; not derived from an archival finding aid.