And after a day of sightseeing, checking into one of the best hotels in Florence is the perfect way to slip into the city’s ...

The Perspective includes case studies of historical figures who demonstrate creative fluidity, including Filippo Brunelleschi, the 15th century architect and engineer; Galileo Galilei, the 17th ...

The massive dome designed by Filippo Brunelleschi towers over the city (it’s literally the highest building in Florence) and gives the cathedral its nickname “Il Duomo.” ...

The mathematics underpinning the modern method of elliptic curve cryptography originated with Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi ...

Just opposite its namesake railway station is Santa Maria Novella, Florence’s first great basilica and the city’s principal church by the Dominicans.

A 'nightmare' rivalry erupts between two of the leading architects of the 15th century, Filippo Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti.

Italian engineers and architects are without equal in the world," said Salvini, comparing the sliding track to Filippo Brunelleschi's famed 15th-century dome over Florence Cathedral.

When the Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi completed the soaring cupola of the Duomo in Florence, Italy, in 1436, it was a feat of engineering that reshaped the city’s skyline.

In his Lives, Vasari recounts an episode of one-upmanship between Donatello and Filippo Brunelleschi. The former had carved a wooden crucifix that Brunelleschi had criticized. Donatello challenged ...

He wants to take his place in the pantheon of great artists like Alberti, Ghiberti, and Brunelleschi. Narrator: Filippo Brunelleschi was the city's most celebrated architect.

Filippo Brunelleschi (Florence, 1377 - Florence 1446) was one of the most important architects of the Renaissance, inventor of linear perspective with a single vanishing point and author of the famous ...