Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Penguin (Non-Classics) $14.00
Anyone alive in Florence on August 19, 1418, would have understood the significance of the competition announced that day concerning the city’s magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, already under construction for more than a century. “Whoever desires to make any model or design for the vaulting of the main Dome…shall do so before the end of the month of September.” The...
The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat by Yale University Press $217.01
In this illustrated book, Martin Kemp examines the major optically oriented examples of artistic theory and practice, from Brunelleschi's invention of perspective and its exploitation by Leonardo and Duerer to the beginnings of photography. In a discussion of colour theory, Kemp traces two main traditions of colour science - the Aristotelian tradition of primary colours and Newton's prismatic...
Brunelleschi (Masters of Italian Art) by Konemann $19.98
Brunelleschi: Studies of his Technology and Inventions by The MIT Press $20.00
If, as his admirers believe, Filippo Brunelleschi singlehandedly achieved the Renaissance in Tuscan architecture, the authors of this book inquire by what human powers and in what historic way he managed to accomplish this feat, and to what extent such attribution is valid. In tackling such a controversial figure, Prager and Scaglia try to determine on a comprehensive basis authentic facts about...
Brunelleschi's Cupola: Past and Present of an Architectural Masterpiece by Mandragora $24.95
This two-part volume offers an innovative analysis and interpretation of Brunelleschi's masterpiece. Part One, which is richly illustrated with iconographic material, traces the design and construction phases of this magnificent building and explores its impact on figurative and literary culture down the ages. With the aid of original charts and diagrams, Part Two provides a thorough analysis of...
Waiting for Filippo: The Life of Renaissance Architect Filippo Brunelleschi by Diane Pub Co $20.00
A pop-up book about the Italian Renaissance architect,sculptur and engineer, Filippo Brunelleschi, explaining how he designed the dome of the cathedral in Florence. Brunelleschi developed the theory of perspective, altering the face of architecture. The details of Florentine life are given as the book follows Brunelleschi's career from apprentice to leading architect.
Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier: Architecture, Space and the Construction of Subjectivity by Routledge $53.95
This well-argued, analytic text provides a greater understanding of spatial issues in the field of architecture. Re-interpreting the fifteenth century demonstration of perspective, Lorens Holm puts it in relation to today’s theories of subjectivity and elaborates for the first time the theoretical link between architecture and psychoanalysis. Divided into three sections, Brunelleschi, Lacan,...
Filippo Brunelleschi (Italian Edition) by Mondadori Electa
Brunelleschi in Perspective by Prentice-Hall
The great period of Early Renaissance art in Italy was initiated by the architectural, technological, and scriptural achievements of the renowned fifteenth-century Florentine artist Filippo Brunelleschi.
Brunelleschi was famous in his own time and has remained so in all succeeding generations, but perspective on the significance of his accomplishments and on his historical personality have...