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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Above : No matter where you walk in Florence’s city center, you’re usually only a few steps from a sight of Filippo Brunelleschi’s famous Duomo, which sits atop the cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore.

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 ...