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 ...

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

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 ...

Brunelleschi's Dome Ross King (Pimlico, £10) Buy it at a discount at BOL Towering over the streets of Florence - visible, on clear days, up to 16 miles away - the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore is one ...

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 ...

Reid Hoffman seems to significantly — and tellingly — misunderstand the intentions of the Florentine architect Filippo Brunelleschi by attributing to him a modern and secular mindset that would have ...

If you’ve ever been to Florence, or seen a picture of Florence, or have an interest in the Italian Renaissance, you will be familiar with the iconic dome of the Florentine cathedral, Santa Maria del ...