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Brunelleschi's Dome

How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

Penguin Books (Nov 01, 2001)

9780142000151

| Trade Paperback

194 pages | 150 x 211 mm | USA | English

$ 13.00 | Value: $ 13.00

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Dewey 726.6094551

LC Classification NA5621.F7 .K56 2001

LC Control No. 2001280068

Genre

History

Subject

Architecture
Europe
Fifteenth Century (1400s)
Italy
Renaissance

Plot

A national bestseller, Brunelleschi's Dome recounts how one genius bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to engineer the impossible--the construction of a dome over the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in 1418. An ALA Notable Book of the Year. Illustrations & halftones throughout.