Brunelleschi's dome
Subtitle: how a Renaissance genius reinvented architecture
By: Ross King.
Publisher: RB Large Print
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Prince Frederick, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Brunelleschi, Filippo, -- 1377-1446.; Santa Maria del Fiore (Cathedral : Florence, Italy); Domes -- Italy -- Florence -- Design and construction.; Large type books.; Florence (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Description: By all accounts, Filippo Brunelleschi, goldsmith and clockmaker, was an unkempt, cantankerous, and suspicious man-even by the generous standards according to which artists were judged in fifteenth-century Florence. He also designed and erected a dome over the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore-a feat of architectural daring that we continue to marvel at today-thus securing himself a place among the most formidable geniuses of the Renaissance. At first denounced as a madman, Brunelleschi literally reinvented the field of architecture amid plagues, wars, and political feuds to raise seventy million pounds of metal, wood, and marble hundreds of feet in the air.
Notes: Previously published: New York : Walker & Co., 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-262).