Giovanni di Lapo Ghini was a 14th-century Italian
architect
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working in
Florence
Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany Regions of Italy, region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilan ...
. He was one of the architects who contributed to the completion of the
basilica
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of
Saint Maria of Fiore in the city. His contribution to the
cathedral
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followed the death of the architect
Giotto
Giotto di Bondone (; – January 8, 1337), known mononymously as Giotto ( , ) and Latinised as Giottus, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic/ Proto-Renaissance period. G ...
in 1337, and the subsequent dismissal of
Francesco Talenti in 1364. However Lapo Ghini was not responsible for the
dome which was begun about 1420 by
Brunelleschi
Filippo Brunelleschi ( , , also known as Pippo; 1377 – 15 April 1446), considered to be a founding father of Renaissance architecture, was an Italian architect, designer, and sculptor, and is now recognized to be the first modern engineer, p ...
.
14th-century Italian architects
14th-century people of the Republic of Florence
Architects from Florence
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