Brunelleschi biography book
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
At the height of the Renaissance in Florence a competition was announced.
The cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore had been under construction for more than a century, but no one knew how to construct the massive dome that was called for in the original design, a design from which the city rulers were loathe to depart.
The task was widely considered impossible, but Filippo Brunelleschi, a goldsmith and clockmaker, submitted a construction plan that was breathtaking in its radicalism.
Brunelleschi biography book
His achievement revolutionized architecture. In dedicating his life to this project, he had, of necessity to invent hoists and cranes of extremely original design to perform tasks never before mechanized. The dome remains aloft today, still one of the largest on earth.
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