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Episode 20: Brunelleschi’s Dome

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Main Sources:

  • Print Sources
    • Jones, Barry, Andrea Sereni, and Massimo Ricci. “Building Brunelleschi’s Dome A Practical Methodology Verified by Experiment.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 69, no. 1 (March 2010): 39-61.
    • Haines, Margaret. “Myth and Management in the Construction of Brunelleschi’s Cupola.” I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 14/15 (2011-2012): 47-101.
    • Scaglia, Giustina. “Building the Cathedral in Florence.” Scientific American 264, no. 1 (January 1991): 66-75.
    • Bartoli, Lando. Il disegno della cupola del Brunelleschi. Florence: L.S. Olschki, 1994.
    • Saalman, Howard. Filippo Brunelleschi: The Cupola of Santa Maria del Fiore. London: A. Zwemmer, 1980.
    • Saalman, Howard. Filippo Brunelleschi: The Buildings. London: A. Zwemmer, 1993.
    • Garrard, Mary. Brunelleschi’s Egg: Nature, Art, and Gender in Renaissance Italy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
  • Online Sources:
  • “Fun” Reading!

Images:

The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower, illuminated at night, showing the large red brick dome, a decorated white marble nave, and a vertical, white marble bell tower to the left. Mountains are visible in the background and a dark, low-lying city in the foreground.
The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy [image credit: Wikipedia]
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Portrait of Filippo Brunelleschi [image credit: Wikipedia]
The Baptistry and Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, from the piazza [image credit: Wikipedia]
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Dome and lantern [image credit: Florence Inferno]
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National Geographic Visuals by Ferdinando Baptista [image source: National Geographic, found on Digital Media World]
Florence Duomo
Herringbone pattern (“spina pesce“) seen as you walk between the shells of the dome [image source: Different Doors]
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Screen grab from National Geographic demonstrating the herringbone/spina pesce pattern [image credit: National Geographic, “How an Amateur Build the World’s Biggest Dome”]
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Giorgio Vasari, Last Judgement (interior of dome) [image credit: Florence Inferno]
 

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Thanks for listening!

-Lindsay

 

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