Brunelleschi's Dome : How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
ISBN: 9780142000151 | 0142000159
Edition: ReprintFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Pub. Date: 11/1/2001
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Describes how a fifteenth-century goldsmith and clockmaker, Filippo Brunelleschi, came up with a unique design for the dome to crown Florence's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore.
An Independent Bestseller By all accounts, Filippo Brunelleschi, goldsmith and clockmaker, was an unkempt, cantankerous, and suspicious man-even by the generous standards according to which artists were judged in fifteenth-century Florence. He also designed and erected a dome over the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore-a fea... MORE
An Independent Bestseller By all accounts, Filippo Brunelleschi, goldsmith and clockmaker, was an unkempt, cantankerous, and suspicious man-even by the generous standards according to which artists were judged in fifteenth-century Florence. He also designed and erected a dome over the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore-a fea... MORE
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Ross King is the author of two novels He lives in England near Oxford.
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