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Brunelleschi

Italian Bru·nel·les·co

[broon-l-es-kee, broo-nel-les-kee]

noun

  1. Filippo 1377?–1446, Italian architect.



Brunelleschi

/ brunelˈleski /

noun

  1. Filippo (fiˈlippo). 1377–1446, Italian architect, whose works in Florence include the dome of the cathedral, the Pazzi chapel of Santa Croce, and the church of San Lorenzo

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The Vandals and Visigoths must have felt that way; Donatello and Brunelleschi no less.

The same room includes two crucifixes in painted wood, the first by Donatello, the second by Brunelleschi.

Donatello was born in 1386, the son of a craftsman, and was apprenticed to the goldsmith and sculptor Ghiberti, also becoming a close friend of the architect and sculptor Brunelleschi.

In 1425, Brunelleschi placed just such a point in the center of a drawing of a famous Florentine building, the Baptistery.

The pair’s combined patronage extended the length of the High Renaissance, from Donatello and Brunelleschi to Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci.

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