The feud that sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World - Brossura

Walker, P.R.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0380807920 ISBN 13: 9780380807925

Casa editrice: Harper USA, 2004

Riassunto

Follows the fifteenth-century creation story of Florence's great Santa Maria del Fiore's dome, noting its design by innovative architect Filippo Brunelleschi, who was forced to share its commission with archrival and gifted sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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L'autore

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.

Product Description

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 building remain a mystery as compelling to architects as Fermat's Last Theorem once was to mathematicians. Yet Brunelleschi didn't direct the construction of the dome alone. He was forced to share the commission with his arch-rival, the sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, whose 'Paradise Doors' are also masterworks. This is the story of these two men - a tale of artistic genius and individual triumph.

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• Editore: Harper USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0380807920
• ISBN 13: 9780380807925
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304