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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Example Sentences

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

The Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore, charged with preserving the landmark cathedral and operating its museum, called the discovery of the terracotta bust depicting Filippo Brunelleschi after nearly 700 years “exceptional.”

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 know that Brunelleschi discussed perspective with Masaccio, and that Alberti was soon to write a textbook on geometrical perspective.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton