Please help with Brunelleschi's dome?

Question

Hey, I Dont know if any of you have read the book brunellschi's Dome, but i have this assignment for part of an AP class and i coulnt figure out some of answer to the questions, and my schools starts monday, so if you guys could help me out by trying to answer any of the questions you can that would be awesome and a huge help.

1:King credits Brunelleschi with an important innovation in art. What was the innovation and how sis it relate to the dome

2:What new technologies and machinery had to be breated to complete the dome

3: Why did cities smell so horribly in the 15th century

4:WAs Alberti a typical Renaissance man? Why or why not?

5: Why was brunelleschi so secretive and what role if any, did patents play in the dome's construction?

6: How did Brunelleschi purpose to pay for the special chapels he envisioned?

7: What were Brunellschis most signifigant success and failures?

Answer 1

1: Brunelleschi was credited with perspective, which is a form of rendering 3-d objects on a 2-d surface. He used perspective to translate an object of one size into another size either scaled up or down. This required a mathematical computation, which he used in the construction of the dome. He used this principal to create a centric point of the dome and lay bricks in a herringbone pattern to make the dome self supporting.

2: Brunelleschi crated machines that would lift materials into place, much like a crude crane, using leverage and pulleys. Brunelleschi brought new scaffolding, arches and hoists, and lighter masonry into Renaissance architecture.
He also is credited with creating the first dome that was self supporting. In other words, a dome shell that supported itself.

3: Horses, he main form of transportation and drayage plopped into the streets. Also, sewer systems were not as sophisticated as today, so the sewer gases were in the air.

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5: In 1421 he became the first person to acquire an industrial patent. It gave him a three-year monopoly on the manufacture of a barge with hoisting gear which was used to carry marble from the Carrara quarries to the gates of Florence, sailing upstream on the Arno.