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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Christie’s announces the online sale Face Time: People in Art through the Ages, a themed auction which looks at portraiture and the representation of people in art, whilst tracing the evolution of the ...

Filippo Brunelleschi designed Florence Cathedral's famed red-brick dome. Getty Images Engineers and tourists alike have long marveled at the impressive domes of the Italian Renaissance, including ...

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

(This program is no longer available for online streaming.) The dome that crowns Florence’s great cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore—the Duomo—is a towering masterpiece of Renaissance ingenuity and an ...

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 ...