Brunelleschi's Dome How did a hot-tempered goldsmith with no formal architectural training create the most miraculous edifice of the Renaissance?

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 ...

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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 ...

Historian Ross King answers listener questions about his book Brunelleschi's Dome. An incredible story of one man's determination to build an apparently impossible structure, it's a tale of ...

Italian archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a mini dome near Florence’s cathedral — evidence, they say, that the structure served as a scale model for the majestic structure designed ...

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 ...

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, the ...

Italy’s famous dome is cracking, and cosmic rays could help save it Filippo Brunelleschi left no detailed blueprints for how he built his famous structure.

British novelist King (previously unpublished in the U.S.) compiles an elementary introduction to the story of how and why Renaissance Italian architect Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) designed ...