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According to art historian Giorgio Vasari, the architect and inventor Filippo Brunelleschi sometime between 1415 and 1420 developed the linear perspective system while experimenting with the ...
How Did Filippo Brunelleschi Construct the World's Largest Masonry Dome? September 09, 2014. More than 500 years after it was built, Filippo Brunelleschi's dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in ...
Sometime in the early 15th century, Renaissance artist Leon Battista Alberti and architect Filippo Brunelleschi invented the linear perspective. Alberti visuali E-PAPER ...
Mrs. Brunelleschi: Filippo, would you show me again how perspective works? Filippo: Of course, cara Madre! You just draw two lines and then this is the vanishing point . . . and there you go ...
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 ...
Historian Ross King answers listener questions about his book Brunelleschi's Dome. An incredible story of one man's determination to build an apparently impossible structure, it's a tale of ...