Paul Robert Walker

The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance

How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World

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A lively and intriguing tale of the competition between two artists, culminating in the construction of the Duomo in Florence, this is also the story of a city on the verge of greatness, and the dawn of the Renaissance, when everything artistic would change. Florence′s Duomo - the dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral - is one of the most enduring symbols of the Italian Renaissance, an equal in influence and fame to Leonardo and Michaelangelo′s works. It was designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, the temperamental architect who rediscovered the techniques of mathematical perspective. He was the dome′s ′inventor′, whose secret methods for bui… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-380-80792-5
EAN: 9780380807925
Produktnummer: 9462511
Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 304 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback

Über den Autor

Paul Robert Walker has written twenty books on subjects ranging from the Italian Renaissance and the American West to folklore, baseball, and miracles. A former teacher and journalist, he lives in Escondido, California, with his wife and two children.