Brunelleschi
Americannoun
noun
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Filippo Brunelleschi, the architect, designed the Innocenti building, while Andrea della Robbia, the sculptor, was responsible for depicting idealized versions of the swaddled infants the institution took in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 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
The Vandals and Visigoths must have felt that way; Donatello and Brunelleschi no less.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2023
The pair’s combined patronage extended the length of the High Renaissance, from Donatello and Brunelleschi to Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2021
In this painting, in the centre near the bottom, Brunelleschi made a hole, and the viewer was invited to look through the back of the painting.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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