Brunelleschi's Dome
How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
Ranked #5 in Renaissance, Ranked #6 in Architecture History — see more rankings.
Brunelleschi's Dome is the story of how a Renaissance man bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder. Not a master mason or carpenter, Filippo Brunelleschi was a goldsmith and clock maker. Over twenty-eight years, he would dedicate himself to solving puzzles of the dome's construction. In the process, he did nothing less than reinvent the field of architecture. He engineered the perfect placement of brick and stone (some among the most renowned machines of the Renaissance) to carry an estimated seventy million pounds hundreds of feet into the air, and... more
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- #23 in Architecture
- #53 in Art
- #9 in Art History
- #49 in Buildings
- #54 in Engineering
- #70 in European History
- #9 in Italian History
- #23 in Italy
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