What we know for sure is that another candidate, a short, homely, and hot-tempered goldsmith named Filippo Brunelleschi, promised to build not one but two domes, one nested inside the other ...

But scholars aren't quite sure how this goldsmith with no formal architectural training managed to construct it. Brunelleschi built a wooden and brick model of his plan but deliberately left out ...

Until now, it has remained a mystery how the master goldsmith and sculptor managed to build the masterpiece that pushes the limits of what is possible to construct even with modern building ...

His rival in the competition was Brunelleschi, future builder of the dome. Pietro Canali/Fototeca 9x12 Gaining renown as a goldsmith and sculptor, in 1401 Brunelleschi entered an architectural ...

Goldsmith-turned-architect Filippo Brunelleschi employed a single helix of vertical bricks in the famous red-brick dome of Florence Cathedral, which was constructed more than a century before the ...

Filippo Brunelleschi was the chosen architect (actually a goldsmith) and oversaw the majority of the construction until his death. While the design, construction and lasting nature of the dome are ...

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 ...

Historians and engineers have long debated how its secretive architect, Filippo Brunelleschi, managed to keep the dome perfectly aligned and symmetrical as the sides rose and converged toward the ...