Filippo Brunelleschi

Another one of Brunelleschi grand achievements was The Capella dei Pazzi. A Renaissance Church built for a wealthy family. The emphasis on new architectural ideas spread fast throughout Europe due to the beauty that was rising up in Florence. These structures were the…

The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World is a 2002 exposition by Paul Robert Walker detailing the artistic phenomenon known as the Renaissance. Predominantly set in Florence, Italy, The Feud centers on the tense relationship between two revolutionary artists—Filippo Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti—and the active Italian world around them. Widespread disease, interstate war, and financial conflict trademarked the era dominated by the…

you could win a million dollars if you could invent a product that would allow your car to run on waste, or a camera that would always take the perfect picture of you, without Photoshop? Would you do it? It seems that the motivation that led Filippo Brunelleschi to an amazing discovery of how to create a dome that would be safe, ascetically pleasing and cost efficient, during the 1400’s was one of money and fame. A hole needed to be repaired in a cathedral in Florence. What needed to be done…

price in three: murder, assassination, and war. However, the city of Florence was also home of creativity and for the greater glory of the family. The Medici would protect and pay for the greatest artists and thinkers of that age, Michael Angelo, Brunelleschi, Botticelli, Leonardo, Galileo. An expression of ideas that will shutter the medieval world and resonate for centuries with a single word, renaissance –rebirth-. Behind it, there is still The Medici, the godfathers of the Renaissance. In a…

Brunelleschi’s Dome The discovery I decided to research was about Filippo Brunelleschi and his famous dome. His discovery began in the early 1400’s, when the leaders of the town—Florence—decided that it was time to replace the roof on the cathedral. For centuries, the hole had been there, and bad weather was beginning to ruin parts of the exposed cathedral. So, they decided to hold a bit of a competition among all the artisans of Florence, offering a prize of 200 gold florins, for the best…

and great strides were accomplished. The Medici family promoted literature in the vernacular, Fluorence’s everyday language (Vocab Notes). Under the control of Cosimo de Medici, a knowledgeable business man who promoted great artist such as Filippo Brunelleschi, the man who designed the very difficult structure of the Santa Maria Del Fiore dome (Finnan). Cosimo franchised him for building this dome. Donatello also became a significant artist of this time. He sculpted the Saint George, Mary…

Medici controlled political power differently. Cosimo de' Medici used money to control Florence. The article, “History of the Medici,” mentions that Cosimo de' Medici was banished from Florence, but because of connections, he was welcome back. The people who originally kick him out was banished forever. Cosimo de' Medici used his money to control Florence politically, and whoever was against him received finical destruction. Lorenzo the Magnificent, grandson of Cosimo de' Medici, ruled…

a time where all knowledge for construction had seized. On the contrary, there was one willful man in Florence, Italy, Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 – 1446) who was up to the challenge and to prove it the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore was born. The most well-known piece of the Cathedral was the dome or Duomo, which consisted of complex layering of brick. So, how did Brunelleschi come up with this idea and how was it sturdy enough to stay in place for all these years? Italy has a well-known…

In the book Brunelleschi’s Dome, Ross King refers to Filipo Brunelleschi as a renaissance genius. It’s actually a part of the full title to the book. Many things led King to this conclusion. No precedence was set for what Brunelleschi did. His designs and methods were so incredibly innovative that he reinvented how architecture was done during the Renaissance. Before Brunelleschi there was a profound lack of technical knowledge amongst the architecture community. Much of the building knowledge…

But that belief came from the fact that no one knew how to accomplish such a great task. No one had the tools to do it. But Brunelleschi saw this as an opportunity. Throughout the entirety of the project, he found obstacle after obstacle, not knowing how to get the job done. But he had a special ability to find a solution. As he encountered these problems, he found the solution…