Publisher:
Penguin Books: 2001
By all accounts, Filippo Brunelleschi, goldsmith and clockmaker, was an unk empt, cantankerous, and suspicious man-even by the generous standards accor ding to which artists were judged in fifteenth-century Florence. He also de signed and erected a dome over the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore-a fea t of architectural daring that we continue to marvel at today-thus securing himself a place among the most formidable geniuses of the Renaissance. At first denounced as a madman, Brunelleschi literally reinvented the field of architecture amid plagues, wars, and political feuds to raise seventy ...
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