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Brunelleschi's dome : how a Renaissance genius reinvented architecture /

Tells the story of how fifteenth-century goldsmith and clock maker Filippo Brunelleschi devised the plan to build the dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence, an engineering feat that had puzzled architects for over a century.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: King, Ross, 1962-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 2001.
Subjects and Genres:
Brunelleschi, Filippo, > 1377-1446.
Brunelleschi, Filippo, > 1377-1446 > Criticism and interpretation.
Brunelleschi, Filippo > Cupola della Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore (Firenze)
Santa Maria del Fiore (Cathedral : Florence, Italy)
Domes > Italy > Florence > Design and construction.
Buildings.
Domes > Design and construction.
Architects > Italy > 15th century.
Church architecture > Italy > Florence.
Buildings > Florence (Italy)
Florence (Italy) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Italy > Florence.
Florence (Italy) > Churches.
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Table of Contents:
  • A more beautiful and honourable temple
  • The goldsmith of San Giovanni
  • The treasure hunters
  • An ass and a babbler
  • The rivals
  • Men without name or family
  • Some unheard-of machine
  • The chain of stone
  • The tale of the fat carpenter
  • The pointed fifth
  • Bricks and mortar
  • Circle by circle
  • The monster of the Arno
  • Debacle at Lucca
  • From bad to worse
  • Consecration
  • The lantern
  • Magni Ingenii Viri Philippi Brunelleschi
  • The nest of delights.

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