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Brunelleschi's
Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
by Ross King
Filippo Brunelleschi's design for the dome of the cathedral of Santa
Maria del Fiore in Florence remains one of the most towering achievements
of Renaissance architecture. Completed in 1436, the dome remains a remarkable
feat of design and engineering. Its span of more than 140 feet exceeds
St Paul's in London and St Peter's in Rome, and even outdoes the Capitol
in Washington, D.C., making it the largest dome ever constructed using
bricks and mortar. The story of its creation and its brilliant but "hot-tempered"
creator is told in Ross King's delightful Brunelleschi's Dome.
Both dome and architect offer King plenty of rich material. The story
of the dome goes back to 1296, when work began on the cathedral, but it
was only in 1420, when Brunelleschi won a competition over his bitter rival
Lorenzo Ghiberti to design the daunting cupola, that work began in earnest.
King weaves an engrossing tale from the political intrigue, personal jealousies,
dramatic setbacks, and sheer inventive brilliance that led to the paranoid
Filippo, "who was so proud of his inventions and so fearful of plagiarism,"
finally seeing his dome completed only months before his death. King argues
that it was Brunelleschi's improvised brilliance in solving the problem
of suspending the enormous cupola in bricks and mortar (painstakingly detailed
with precise illustrations) that led him to "succeed in performing an engineering
feat whose structural daring was without parallel." He tells a compelling,
informed story, ranging from discussions of the construction of the bricks,
mortar, and marble that made up the dome, to its subsequent use as a scientific
instrument by the Florentine astronomer Paolo Toscanelli. --Jerry Brotton,
Amazon.co.uk
Paperback: 194 pages
Penguin USA (Paper); ISBN: 0142000159; (October 30, 2001) |
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Brunelleschi's
Dome : How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
by Ross King
Hardcover - 194 pages (October 2000)
Walker & Co; ISBN: 080271366
Brunelleschi:
Studies Of His Technology And Inventions (Dover Books on Architecture)
by Frank
D. Prager, Gustina
Scaglia
Synopsis
A pioneer of Italian Renaissance architecture, Filippo Brunelleschi
(1377-1446) is most famous for his daring and original ideas, among them
the dome of Florence's famed cathedral. The project, which involved creating
a huge dome without supporting framework, took most of his life and formed
the basis of Italian architecture of the period. This comprehensive book
describes the builder's many remarkable achievements, masonry methods,
construction concepts, machines and other inventions. Unabridged republication
of the work published by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
1970.
Paperback from Dover Publications
Book Published: 04 September, 2004
Filippo
Brunelleschi: The Buildings
by Howard
Saalman
Hardcover from Pennsylvania State University Press
Book Published: 01 December, 1993
Brunelleschi (Masters of Italian Art Series)
by Peter Gartner
Hardcover from Konemann
Book Published: 01 May, 1998
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The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation
of Architecture
by Henry A. Millon
Hardcover from Rizzoli International Publications
Book Published: 15 January, 1997
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The science of art: Optical themes in western art from Brunelleschi
to Seurat
by Martin Kemp
Hardcover from Yale University Press
Book Published: 1990
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Italian Renaissance Architecture: From Brunelleschi to Michelangelo
by Henry Millon
Hardcover from Thames and Hudson Ltd
Book Published: 13 June, 1994
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Waiting for Filippo: The Life of Renaissance Architect Filippo Brunelleschi
by Michael Bender
Hardcover from Diane Pub Co
Book Published: 01 August, 1995
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Filippo Brunelleschi
by Eugenio Battisti
Paperback from Edizioni Electa
Book Published: 1989
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