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The Feud that Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World
de Walker, Paul Robert
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New York: William Morrow: An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2002.
8vo. 325 x 155 mm., [9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches]. xv, 269 pp. 8 pages of black and white plates. Publisher's two tone paper boards, dust jacket. Very good copy.
First edition. Bestselling biography of Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi and the competition to design and fabricate the main doors and the dome of the Church of St. John in Florence. Well researched and readable, Walker's book include a history of Florence during the 15th century and includes cameos of Donatello, Cosimo de' Medici, Leon Battista Alberti and other notable Florentines of the period.
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A lively and intriguing tale of the competition between two artists, culminating in the construction of the Duomo in Florence, this is also the story of a city on the verge of greatness, and the dawn of the Renaissance, when everything artistic would change.Florence's Duomo - the dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral - is one of the most enduring symbols of the Italian Renaissance, an equal in influence and fame to Leonardo and Michaelangelo's works. It was designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, the temperamental architect who rediscovered the techniques of mathematical perspective. He was the dome's 'inventor', whose secret methods for building remain a mystery as compelling to architects as Fermat's Last Theorem once was to mathematicians. Yet Brunelleschi didn't direct the construction of the dome alone. He was forced to share the commission with his arch-rival, the sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, whose 'Paradise Doors' are also masterworks. This is the story of these two men - a tale of artistic genius and individual triumph.
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- The Feud that Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World
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- Walker, Paul Robert
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- William Morrow: An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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- New York
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- 2002
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