Fillippo Brunelleschi by Luca HEALY https://padlet.com/hea00151/223jbj4gx6aq en-us 2017-05-15 22:55:05 UTC 2025-11-05 20:43:17 UTC hello@padlet.com Historical significance: wan0094 https://padlet.com/hea00151/223jbj4gx6aq/wish/173087965 Fillippo Brunelleschi is well known for developing a technique for linear perspective in art and for building the dome of the Florence cathedral. The dome took 16 years to complete and used complicated methods that modern architects still can’t understand. 

Filippo Brunelleschi entered a competition to design the unfinished dome of the florence cathedral, Brunelleschi’s overseers were intrigued by his complicated ideas but couldn't fully understand it. To explain Brunelleschi held up an egg and asked if anyone could stand the egg up. when they failed Brunelleschi cracked the tip of the egg and stood it on the table.

The renaissance was a time of new idea’s and rebirth, Brunelleschi combined the two to create a new era of ideas for engineering and architecture including ancient Greek and Roman methods  creating a personal legacy. Brunelleschi died in 1446, April 15th buried in Santa Maria del Fiore(Florence Cathedral) The completion of the dome was also very important and significant for the city of Florence because they now had the biggest dome in the world and the Cathedral was complete. While building the dome of Florence Brunelleschi also added pillars to the unfinished building for support this was the first times pillars had been used for support since ancient Rome and Gothic architecture.

Brunelleschi also developed linear perspective which radically changed Western art, making drawings feel three dimensional.]]> 2017-05-22 08:39:59 UTC https://padlet.com/hea00151/223jbj4gx6aq/wish/173087965 Historical Perspectives: hea00151 https://padlet.com/hea00151/223jbj4gx6aq/wish/173088240 Fillippo Brunelleschi was a hard working secretive genius with a good sense of humour. 

His first biographer Antonio Manetti, describes him as amiable, never known to boast, but easily provoked by insulting or disrespectful acts.

Hot tempered and stubborn. Brunelleschi’s stubbornness led to a shouting match with the overseers who had him forcibly ejected from the assembly twice, announcing him as “a buffoon and a babbler.”    

Brunelleschi was a very secretive man unlike Leonardo di vinci he left no notebooks or sketches.He once said “To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.

But not everyone thought of Brunelleschi as a great man. Giovanni da Prato a rival architect working for Ghiberti called Brunelleschi a “dark, deep wellspring of ignorance” and a “miserable and imbecile beast” in a poem he made.Giovanni also promised in the dark poem that if Brunelleschi completed the dome he would kill himself.]]> 2017-05-22 08:41:24 UTC https://padlet.com/hea00151/223jbj4gx6aq/wish/173088240 Visual Analysis wan0094 https://padlet.com/hea00151/223jbj4gx6aq/wish/173089794 This is the blueprint of Brunelleschi’s design for the dome in the the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore which began in 1420 and was completed on the 25th of March 1436.
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The dome’s structure was very special because of how it was built. As you can see in the blueprint there is an internal dome built inside the outer shell for surport actually a With no central support system and an uneven octagonal base without a direct centre, Brunelleschi had to build a dome over the Florence Cathedral. Though this sketch shows a lantern, the lantern was completed in 1471 by Baccio D’agnolo. Medici was the one who commissioned Brunelleschi to design the dome on the Florence Cathedral. Brunelleschi had some freedom, his only restraint was he had to build an eight sided dome because of the octagonal base.

]]> 2017-05-22 08:49:46 UTC https://padlet.com/hea00151/223jbj4gx6aq/wish/173089794 Bibliography wan0094 https://padlet.com/hea00151/223jbj4gx6aq/wish/173090144 National Geographic
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/il-duomo/mueller-text
Published February 2014
By Tom Mueller
This source helped get a better understanding of Brunelleschi’s early life and find primary source quotes about his work and life.

Penn state University Press
http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-01067-3.html
Author - Howard Saalman (Professor of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University)
This source showed me Brunelleschi's leading Patrons.

Brainy quote
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/f/filippobru737851.html
This website gave us quotes to use by Brunelleschi

Architecture of the Western World
 by Michael Raeburn,
This book gave us more information about his dome and his methods used to build it

Historical Atlas of the Renaissance
by Robert Ritchie
This book gave us information about Brunelleschi's personal life.

The Story of Buildings by Patrick Dillon and Stephen Biesty
This book showed us how buildings in the Renaissance times were built

Italian Renaissance art
http://www.italian-renaissance-art.com/Brunelleschi.html
This site taught me about the structural pillars Brunelleschi used.
]]> 2017-05-22 08:51:46 UTC https://padlet.com/hea00151/223jbj4gx6aq/wish/173090144 wan0094 https://padlet.com/hea00151/223jbj4gx6aq/wish/173090259 2017-05-22 08:52:23 UTC https://padlet.com/hea00151/223jbj4gx6aq/wish/173090259 Patronage hea00151 https://padlet.com/hea00151/223jbj4gx6aq/wish/173113485 Brunelleschi's leading patrons include the Barbadori in their chapel in Santa Felicita, Cosimo de Medici at San Lorenzo, Andrea Pazzi at the chapter house of the Pazzi in the convent of Santa Croce, and the Scolari at the Angeli rotunda.]]> 2017-05-22 11:26:23 UTC https://padlet.com/hea00151/223jbj4gx6aq/wish/173113485 Other hea00151 https://padlet.com/hea00151/223jbj4gx6aq/wish/173116925 Brunelleschi also engineered complicated machines including a three-speed hoist  system an intricate system of gears, pulleys, screws, and driveshafts powered by a single yoke of oxen, and the Castello a massive 65 foot crane

after Brunelleschi died the Decretive marble and gold lantern he had designed had not been completed and was laid by a well respected group of people]]> 2017-05-22 11:45:54 UTC https://padlet.com/hea00151/223jbj4gx6aq/wish/173116925 Youtube Video about the Dome wan0094 https://padlet.com/hea00151/223jbj4gx6aq/wish/173259936 https://youtu.be/_IOPlGPQPuM]]> 2017-05-22 22:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/hea00151/223jbj4gx6aq/wish/173259936 pon0005 https://padlet.com/hea00151/223jbj4gx6aq/wish/173260985 2017-05-22 23:09:28 UTC https://padlet.com/hea00151/223jbj4gx6aq/wish/173260985