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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...