Brunelleschi

American  

[broon-l-es-kee, broo-nel-les-kee] / ˌbrun lˈɛs ki, ˌbru nɛlˈlɛs ki /

Italian Brunellesco

noun

1. Filippo 1377?–1446, Italian architect.

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Brunelleschi British  

/ 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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Brunelleschi

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 use of linear perspective had been a “secret” known to the ancient Greeks and Romans but lost and then “rediscovered” by the Florentine architect Filippo Brunelleschi, whose drawings inspired Masaccio.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, Masaccio and Leon Battista Alberti were establishing the rules of perspective.

From Washington Post ● May 12, 2022

We do know that Brunelleschi, in his search for new architectural forms, had made a study of the surviving classical buildings in ancient Rome, a study which involved taking measurements and drawing plans and elevations.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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