Six hundred years ago, Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi finished one and two in a contest to design the decorative bronze doors that now grace Florence's beloved Baptistry. Ghiberti, the ...

Catthedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, Arnolfo di Cambio, Fillippo Brunelleschi . Image © James Taylor-Foster Marta Minujín, Parthenon of Books, Dokumenta 14, Kassel ...

In midst of designing the famed domed roof atop the Florence Cathedral, Filippo Brunelleschi, one of the greatest architects of the Italian Renaissance, was also building an estate for a noble family ...

This story appears in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1418 the town fathers of Florence finally addressed a monumental problem they’d been ignoring for decades: the ...

A new hour long documentary for PBS' series, Building the Great Cathedrals, explores the mystery of how, in the 15th century, Florentine architect Filippo Brunelleschi constructed one of the largest ...

Reid Hoffman seems to significantly — and tellingly — misunderstand the intentions of the Florentine architect Filippo Brunelleschi by attributing to him a modern and secular mindset that would have ...

A previously unknown terracotta bust of the famed early Renaissance architect who designed the Florence Cathedral dome was unveiled Thursday in the Tuscan capital, where it will be displayed ...

If you’ve ever been to Florence, or seen a picture of Florence, or have an interest in the Italian Renaissance, you will be familiar with the iconic dome of the Florentine cathedral, Santa Maria del ...