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.