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Brunelleschi's dome, how a Renaissance genius reinvented architecture, Ross King

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]) and index

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Brunelleschi's dome

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Ross King

how a Renaissance genius reinvented architecture

Tells the story of how fifteenth-century goldsmith and clock maker Filippo Brunelleschi devised the plan to build the dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence, an engineering feat that had puzzled architects for over a century

A more beautiful and honourable temple -- The goldsmith of San Giovanni -- The treasure hunters -- An ass and a babbler -- The rivals -- Men without name or family -- Some unheard-of machine -- The chain of stone -- The table of the fat carpenter -- The pointed fifth -- Bricks and mortar -- Circle by circle -- The monster of the Arno -- Debacle at Lucca -- From bad to worse -- Consecration -- The lantern -- Magni Ingenii Viri Philippi Brunelleschi -- The nest of delights