Flippo Brunelleschi Research Paper

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Filippo Brunelleschi has left a legacy that not many people have been able to achieve throughout their life time. Brunelleschi was an architect and engineer, and one of the pioneers of early renaissance architecture in Italy. He was the first modern engineer and problem-solver with unorthodox methods. He built his major work, The Dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, with the help of the machines he invented specifically for this project.
The early life of Filippo Brunelleschi is mostly a mystery. But it is known that he was born in Florence, Italy in the year of 1377. The Italians birth name is Filippo di ser Brunellesco di Lippo Lap, but will just be called throughout history by his last name Brunelleschi. His father was Brunellesco …show more content…

It is unknown if losing the competition is the reason for the sudden transition in focus but it seems to look that way. Another sudden transition Brunelleschi made was transitioning from his training in gothic or medieval style to the new architecture classicism. Many people believe Brunelleschi did this because he was inspired by the trip that he had with Donatello to Rome so they could study the ancient …show more content…

But it wasn’t until the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore was built that Brunelleschi was able to show his true intelligence. In 1418 the dome of the cathedral had yet been defined, this was because no one knew how to build a dome big enough to fit the cathedral. The reason it was so hard to figure out how to build this dome was because buttresses were forbidden and it was not possible to obtain rafters for scaffolding long and strong enough to build the dome. So in order to resolve the problem the Arte della Lana held a competition. Brunelleschi won the competition because he was the only one who could stand an egg upright on a piece of marble. How he said he did it was by “…giving one end a blow on that flat piece of marble, made it stand upright… The architects protested that they could have done the same; but Filippo answered, laughing, that they could have made the dome, if they had seen his design.” (Martin 78). Brunelleschi went on to build the dome, how he did so was by inventing a hoisting machine to raise the

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