i need some back ground info on fillipo brunelleschi the arcitect plz!!!?

Question

I NEED THIS BEFORE MONDAY!!! this is 4 x-tra credit project and i can't find any thing!!! it is due on monday so the latest i can have it is on sunday at 4:00. also, my teacher said it is ok 2 use yahho answers. thanks!

Answer 1

Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 – April 15, 1446) was a Florentine architect and one of the first architects to be associated with the Italian Renaissance. All of his principle works are in Florence. He achieved extraoardinary recognition during his lifetime. As explained by Antonio Manetti, who knew Brunelleschi and who wrote his biography, Brunelleschi, "was granted such honors as to be buried in Santa Maria del Fiore, and with a marble bust, which they say was carved from life, and placed there in perpetual memory with such a splendid epitaph."[1]

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Brunelleschi as Architect
The shift from goldsmith to architect and, just as importantly from someone trained in a medieval manner to a founding figure of Renaissance architecture was remarkable, and the biographical facts about this period are not well known. Even by 1400, the emergent interest in ‘humanitas’ and in Roman antiquity was yet restricted to very few learned men, writers and philosophers and had not yet reached into the arts. Brunelleschi became close friends with Donatello and the two went to Rome from 1402-4 to study the ancient Roman ruins. Donatello, like Brunelleschi, had received his training in a goldsmith's workshop, and had then worked in Ghiberti's studio. The astonishing aspect of their trip was that though in previous decades the humanists had talked about the glories of ancient Rome, no one had yet studied the physical fabric of these ruins in any great detail.

Brunelleschi’s first architectural commission was the Ospedale degli Innocenti‎ (1419-ca.1445), or Foundling Hospital. Its long loggia would have been a rare sight in the tight and curving streets of Florence, not to mention its impressive arches, each about 8 m high. The building was dignified yet sober. There were no displays of fine marble and decorative inlays.[5] It was also the first building in Florence to make clear reference - in its columns and capitals - to classical antiquity.


Brunelleschi's dome of Santa Maria del Fiore.Soon other commissions came, the most important of which was the design for the dome of the Cathedral of Florence, (1419-1436) and the Sagrestia Vecchia, or Old Sacristy of S. Lorenzo, (1421-1440). The complex history of Santa Maria del Fiore need not be recounted except to state that by 1418 all that was left to finish was the dome. The problem was that when the building was designed in the previous century, no one had any idea about how such a dome was to be built, given that it close in dimension to the Pantheon in Rome and that no dome of that size had been built since. And since buttresses were forbidden, it was unclear to many how a dome of that size could even stand. In 1419, the Arte della Lana, the wool merchant’s guild, held a competition to solve the problem. The two main competitors were Ghiberti and Brunelleschi, with Brunelleschi winning and receiving the commission. The dome, the lantern (built: 1436-ca.1450) and the exedrae (built: 1439-1445) would occupy most of Brunelleschi’s life.[6] Brunelleschi's success can be attributed to no small degree to his technical and mathametical genius.[7]

Of the two churches that Brunelleschi designed, the Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze, (1419-1480s) and Santo Spirito di Firenze, (1441-1481), both of which are considered landmarks in Renaissance architecture, the latter is seen as conforming most closely to his ideas.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Brunelleschi