Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King

Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

Ross King

192 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced
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Brunelleschi's Dome is the story of how a Renaissance man bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder. Not a master mason or carpenter, Filippo Brunelleschi was a goldsmith and clock maker. Over twenty-eight...

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