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including Filippo Brunelleschi’s famed red-brick addition to Florence Cathedral and the gargantuan rotunda of St. Peter’s Basilica. These domes were built as self-supporting structures ...
With genius, leadership, and grit, Filippo Brunelleschi raised true artists to the rank of sublime creators, worthy of eternal praise in the company of the saints, an image that would dominate the ...
The construction of the Florentine duomo by Filippo Brunelleschi has been an engineering marvel ... after Brunelleschi by the Sangallo masters throughout Italy, including in St. Peter’s Basilica in ...
This image released by the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore on Thursday, May 23, 2024, shows a terracotta portrait of Florence landmark cathedral's architect Filippo Brunelleschi dating back to the ...
The soaring dome atop the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Flower justly dominates the Florence skyline and has stood for centuries, ever since Filippo Brunelleschi designed it in the early 15th century.
Although building had started on Florence's Santa Maria del Fiore in the late thirteenth century, it wasn't until 1418 that local goldsmith Filippo Brunelleschi came up with an audacious way of ...
In midst of designing the famed domed roof atop the Florence Cathedral, Filippo Brunelleschi, one of the greatest architects of the Italian Renaissance, was also building an estate for a noble ...
Mr. King talked about his book Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture, published by Walker and Co. The book tells the story of Filippo Brunelleschi and how in 1418 ...