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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 feat 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 million pounds of metal, wood, and marble hundreds of feet in the air.
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Architecture, Renaissance, Art, Biography & Autobiography, Buildings, structures, Cathedrals, Design and construction, Domes, History, Nonfiction, Renaissance, Renaissance Architecture, Santa Maria del Fiore (Cathedral : Florence, Italy), Brunelleschi, Filippo, 1377-1446, Domes -- Italy -- Florence -- Design and construction, Florence (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc, Kathedralen, Santa Maria del Fiore, Koepels, Buildings, Architecture, italy, Santa Maria del Fiore (Cathedral : Florence, Italy). Cupola, New York Times reviewed, Architecture religieuse, Dômes, Cathédrales, Architecture de la Renaissance, Duomo, Church architecture, italy, Florence (italy), churchesPlaces
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Previously published: New York : Walker & Co., 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-262).
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The superb story of the architect Filippo Brunelleschi and the design and construction of the Great Cathedral in Florence - one of the most magnificent achievements of the Italian Renaissance.Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, with its immense, terracotta-tiled cupola, still retains a rare power to astonish. Yet the elegance of the building belies the tremendous labour, technical ingenuity and bitter personal strife involved in its creation. For over a century after work on the cathedral began in 1296, the proposed dome was regarded as all but impossible to build because of its enormous size. The greatest architectural puzzle of its age, when finally completed in 1436 the dome was hailed as one of the great wonders of the world. To this day, it remains the highest and widest masonry dome ever built. This book tells the extraordinary story of how the cupola was raised, from its conception to its consecration. Also told is the story of the dome's architect, the brilliant and volatile Filippo Brunelleschi. Denounced as a madman at the start of his labours, he was celebrated at their end as a great genius. His life was one of ambition, ingenuity, rivalry and intrigue - a human drama set against the plagues, wars, political feuds and intellectual ferments of Renaissance Florence, the glorious era for which the dome remains the most compelling symbol.
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