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The Museum is situated in a building that was created especially for the Opera del Duomo, or rather, the large number of administrators, artists and craftsmen (stone cutters, marble workers, carpenters...) who were employed in the construction of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, which was commissioned in 1296. The Wool Guild, from whom the Opera took its coat of arms with the Agnus Dei, supervised the entire organization (from 1331 to 1770). Some of the crushing costs of the basilica were covered by the sale of wood from the forests of the Casentino, which the government of the Florentine Republic donated to the Opera in the late 14th century.
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