Creativity and imagination was put into the creating of the dome for Florence’s cathedral. Filippo Brunelleschi used those as he constructed the dome. He not only made one dome, but two; and outer an inner dome. He was an apprentice for a goldsmith as a boy, and there he had “mastered drawing and painting, wood carving, sculpture in silver and bronze, stone setting, niello, and enamel work. Later he studies optics and tinkered endlessly with wheels, gears, weights, and motion, building a number of ingenious clocks…” Needless to say, he was a very talented and gifted person. The motivation for the construction of the dome was a contest. The cathedral had a hole in the roof, and no one could figure out how to repair and/or build it. The
…show more content…
His lifts “were so far ahead of their time that they weren’t rivaled until the industrial revolution.” He really was a genius. The significance of this discovery, in lifting the dome with the machine, was that future generations were able to raise their own domes, and they were also able to modify and enhance his invention. Most important though, is that because of this discovery we have been able to admire and stand in awe of the dome on top of the Florence cathedral for 580 years. From reading this, I’ve learned just how creative someone can really be. This dome took 16 years to build, and in those years there were trials and events that came up but Brunelleschi still kept with it. He was very creative, smart and a genius. He used his knowledge to create and build something so beautiful. He was talented, and used his talent to do what he loved; create. This is significant to me because it shows just how unique and amazing our minds are. We all have that creativity inside of us, and if we applied it into our lives and into our knowledge like Brunelleschi did, I know we can also do amazing things. I’m not saying that if we all thought like him then we can make a dome, but we’d be able to do find the passion of our
His lifts “were so far ahead of their time that they weren’t rivaled until the industrial revolution.” He really was a genius. The significance of this discovery, in lifting the dome with the machine, was that future generations were able to raise their own domes, and they were also able to modify and enhance his invention. Most important though, is that because of this discovery we have been able to admire and stand in awe of the dome on top of the Florence cathedral for 580 years. From reading this, I’ve learned just how creative someone can really be. This dome took 16 years to build, and in those years there were trials and events that came up but Brunelleschi still kept with it. He was very creative, smart and a genius. He used his knowledge to create and build something so beautiful. He was talented, and used his talent to do what he loved; create. This is significant to me because it shows just how unique and amazing our minds are. We all have that creativity inside of us, and if we applied it into our lives and into our knowledge like Brunelleschi did, I know we can also do amazing things. I’m not saying that if we all thought like him then we can make a dome, but we’d be able to do find the passion of our