Its supple curves and innovative engineering are a monument to the genius of Filippo Brunelleschi. 1 of 8 Still, many decades later, no one seemed to have a viable idea of how to build a dome ...

it is taller than the Statue of Liberty and weighs as much as an average cruise ship. Historians and engineers have long debated how its secretive architect, Filippo Brunelleschi, managed to keep ...

And it will remain, as a cultural inheritance, the very essence of Florentine nature. Filippo Brunelleschi, Donatello, Paolo Uccello and Masaccio all represent a common heritage, the spoken word ...

Six hundred years ago, Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi finished one and two in a contest to design the decorative bronze doors that now grace Florence's beloved Baptistry. Ghiberti ...

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 ...