Filippo Brunelleschi
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Filippo di ser Brunellesco di Lippo Lapi, commonly known as Filippo Brunelleschi and also nicknamed Pippo by Leon Battista Alberti, was an Italian architect, designer, goldsmith, and sculptor. He is c
Portrait by Masaccio, Brancacci Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, 1423–1428
Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral towering above Florence, with the largest brick dome in the world, realized by Brunelleschi.
St. John the Evangelist, Silver Altar of Saint James, Pistoia Cathedral (1399–1400)
Jeremiah and Isaiah, altarpiece of St. James
Florence Cathedral
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Florence Cathedral, formally the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower, is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Florence in Florence, Italy. Commenced in 1296 in the Gothic style to a design o
Filippo Brunelleschi
…supervisor. In 1421, Brunelleschi became the first person to receive a patent in the Western world. He is most famous for designing the dome of the Florence Cathedral, and for the mathematical technique of linear perspective in art which governed pictorial depictions of space until the late 19th century and influenced…
Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore – Il Duomo di Firenze
The 19th century Neo-Gothic façade
The Cathedral as depicted in the Codex Rustici of 1447
The Duomo, as if completed, in a fresco by Andrea di Bonaiuto, painted in the 1360s, before the commencement of the dome