Brunelleschi: Did you mean...?

The majority of great Renaissance works of art were produced in large and busy workshops run by a successful master artist and his team of assistants and apprentices. Here, too, more mundane art was produced in larger quantities to meet the...

In 1418, Filippo Brunelleschi was tasked with building the largest dome ever seen at the time. He had no formal architecture training. Yet experts still don't fully understand the brilliant methods he used in contructing the dome, which tops...

A portrait of the Italian Renaissance artist Donatello (c. 1386-1466 CE). From a late 15th century CE tempera panel credited to Masaccio and known as 'The Founders of Florentine Art'. The other four portraits in the panel are of Giotto, Ucello...

The facade of the Florence Cathedral with the dome visible. The cathedral was designed by the Italian Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446 CE), while the facade is a modern addition.