A cow for the Duomo

When Brunelleschi's Cupola was built, timber frameworks surrounded the cathedral. The north side of the Duomo faces via de' Servi, and in one of these apartmente a young and nice taylor lived and worked, who sometimes came to the window to get more light, or simply to look at the men working at the cupola, when her husband wasat w ork. A love story started, and one of these stone carvers sculpted a head of a cow, with a big pair of horns, facing the balcony of the young girl maybe to warn her husband.

Well, this is what people said....But the reason of the head of a cow sculpted on top of the frames at the base of the cupola is probably another one: maybe it is just to say thanks to these animals that made possible such a great work!