In midst of designing the famed domed roof atop the Florence Cathedral, Filippo Brunelleschi, one of the greatest architects of the Italian Renaissance, was also building an estate for a noble family ...

Six hundred years ago, Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi finished one and two in a contest to design the decorative bronze doors that now grace Florence's beloved Baptistry. Ghiberti, the ...

Filippo Brunelleschi designed Florence Cathedral's famed red-brick dome. Getty Images Engineers and tourists alike have long marveled at the impressive domes of the Italian Renaissance, including ...

Catthedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, Arnolfo di Cambio, Fillippo Brunelleschi . Image © James Taylor-Foster Marta Minujín, Parthenon of Books, Dokumenta 14, Kassel ...

A previously unknown terracotta bust of the famed early Renaissance architect who designed the Florence Cathedral dome was unveiled Thursday in the Tuscan capital, where it will be displayed ...

A new hour long documentary for PBS' series, Building the Great Cathedrals, explores the mystery of how, in the 15th century, Florentine architect Filippo Brunelleschi constructed one of the largest ...

This story appears in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1418 the town fathers of Florence finally addressed a monumental problem they’d been ignoring for decades: the ...

Christie’s announces the online sale Face Time: People in Art through the Ages, a themed auction which looks at portraiture and the representation of people in art, whilst tracing the evolution of the ...

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