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The Baptistery at Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence - the site of Brunelleschi’s famous experiment in perspective In the centuries since, Brunelleschi’s discovery has become an accepted fundament of ...
Brunelleschi’s stubbornness led to a shouting ... he single-handedly worked out the rules of linear perspective. He’d just spent several years in Rome measuring and sketching the ancient ...
Architect Filippo Brunelleschi (left) and the Duomo he designed in Florence drawn by the artist Cigoli. (Getty Images/Wikimedia Commons) And linear perspective was born! A ton of artists began to ...
The mathematics underpinning the modern method of elliptic curve cryptography originated with Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi ...
The subject of perspective has been hotly debated ever since, from every point of view and in every aspect, but the discussions were particularly heated in the twentieth century: did Brunelleschi ...
In due time the man walking past the baptistery that morning would change all that, for he was Filippo Brunelleschi (1377–1446), who would one day make his name as the designer and builder of the ...
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 ...
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 ...