Brunelleschi's Dome

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How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

Ross King

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English

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
13 August 2013

Religious buildings; History of architecture; History; European history

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 Florence's 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 impossible to build: not only would it be enormous, but its original and sacrosanct design shunned the flying buttresses that supported cathedrals all over Europe. The dome would literally need to be erected over thin air.

Of the many plans submitted, one stood out--a daring and unorthodox solution to vaulting what is still the largest dome in the world. It was offered not by a master mason or carpenter, but by a goldsmith and clockmaker named Filippo Brunelleschi, then forty-one, who would dedicate the next twenty-eight years to solving the puzzles of the dome's construction. In the process, he reinvented the field of architecture.

Brunelleschi's Dome is the story of how a Renaissance genius bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder we continue to marvel at today. Award-winning, bestselling author Ross King weaves this drama amid a background of the plagues, wars, political feuds, and the intellectual ferments of Renaissance Florence to bring the dome's creation to life in a fifteenth-century chronicle with twenty-first-century resonance.

By: Ross King
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 221mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9781620401934
ISBN 10: 1620401932
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 13 August 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ross King is the highly praised author of Leonardo and The Last Supper, Brunelleschi's Dom e (the Book Sense Nonfiction Book of the Year in 2000), Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, The Judgment of Paris, Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power, and two novels, Ex Libris and Domino. He lives outside Oxford in England.

Reviews for Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

""Ross King has a knack for explaining complicated processes in a manner that is not only lucid but downright intriguing.... Fascinating."" --Los Angeles Times ""A pleasing pastiche of engineering marvels... and professional intrigue."" --The New York Times Book Review ""An absorbing tale."" --The Boston Globe ""An altogether enchanting tale."" --Dava Sobel, author of A MORE PERFECT HEAVEN ""One of architecture's great tales."" --Newsweek