The precarious, cruel but dazzling world of a foundling hospital is brought wonderfully to life by the author of Botticelli’s Secret Joseph Luzzi, a professor at Bard College in New York, is a Dante ...

Filippo Brunelleschi is as familiar as he is elusive. Known most of all for his imposing and magnificent dome on the Florence Cathedral, much of the information surrounding his accomplishments has ...

In 1845, physicist Michael Faraday provided the first direct evidence that electromagnetism and light are related. Now, it turns out that this connection is even stronger than Faraday imagined. In his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: Cristian Baitg Schreiweis/Getty Images From Brunelleschi’s ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa ...

From Brunelleschi’s ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, to the vast ceiling of the Sistine Chapel decorated with Michelangelo’s staggering frescoes, ...

The portly, balding sculptor-turned-architect must have drawn a few curious gazes as he set up a complicated painting apparatus in the corner of a Renaissance-era piazza. He planted his instrument, ...

FLORENCE, Italy — If you would ever get lost in Florence, it’s easy: just look for the Duomo di Firenze or Florence Cathedral, and you’d be right on track! Smacked right at the heart of Florence, 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 ingenuity, ...

In the early days of the Renaissance, Filippo Brunelleschi changed visual art forever. Brunelleschi – the humble architect who designed Florence’s Duomo – used his skill as an architect to formalise ...

The Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore has purchased an previously unknown early Renaissance sculpture, a portrait of Filippo Brunelleschi, the great architect already lauded by his contemporaries for his ...