Brunelleschi
Americannoun
noun
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Filippo Brunelleschi is as familiar as he is elusive.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Art historians Giancarlo Gentilini and Alfredo Bellandi identified the sculpture as a model by Andrea di Lazzaro Cavalcanti for the marble bust of Brunelleschi in the memorial monument in the Florence Cathedral.
From Seattle Times • May 23, 2024
Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Masaccio and Leon Battista Alberti were establishing the rules of perspective.
From Washington Post • May 12, 2022
By studying ancient Roman structures and employing his own incredible intellect, Brunelleschi built the dome in such a way that it held its internal structure together during the construction process.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
There have been endless attempts to reconstruct exactly what Brunelleschi did, and why, for contemporaries were clear that this little object represented the birth of perspective painting.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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