Brunelleschis Dome How A Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

The New York Times bestselling award winning story of the construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence and the Renaissance genius who reinvented architecture to build it. On August 19 1418 a competition concerning Florences magnificent new cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore was announced Whoever desires to make any model or design for the vaulting of the main Dome....shall do so before the end of the month of September. The proposed dome was regarded far and wide as all but impossi