{"id":3543,"date":"2015-08-23T19:17:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T17:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guideintoscana.it\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2020-04-14T11:42:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T09:42:07","slug":"brunelleschi-dome-of-santa-maria-del-fiore-cathedral-florence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guideintoscana.it\/en\/brunelleschi-dome-of-santa-maria-del-fiore-cathedral-florence\/","title":{"rendered":"Brunelleschi and the Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral in Florence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guideintoscana.it\/en\/portfolio\/florence-churches-guided-tours\/\">&#8230;. here&#8217;s how <strong>Brunelleschi<\/strong> built the <strong>Dome<\/strong> of <strong>Florence<\/strong> <strong>Cathedral<\/strong>!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The animation, made\u00a0by National Geographic, shows clearly the more recent hypothesis about the method of construction put in place by the brilliant Florentine architect. After six hundred years (1418-1434) the<strong> Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore is still\u00a0<span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title \" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"How an Amateur Built the World's Biggest Dome\">the world&#8217;s biggest Dome\u00a0<\/span>made of brick<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth remembering the words of admiration and amazement that Leon Battista Alberti (1435) wanted to dedicate this monument and to his extraordinary Architect:<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>&#8220;<em>Who could ever be hard or envious enough to fail to praise Pippo the architect [Brunelleschi] on seeing here such a large structure, rising above the skies, ample to cover with its shadow all the Tuscan people, and constructed without the aid of centering or great quantity of wood? Since this work seems impossible of execution in our time, if I judge rightly, it was probably unknown and unthought of among the Ancients<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Leon Battista Alberti, On Panting, Prologue)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_IOPlGPQPuM&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]&#8230;. here&#8217;s how Brunelleschi built the Dome of Florence Cathedral! The animation, made\u00a0by National Geographic, shows clearly the more recent hypothesis about the method of construction put in place by the brilliant Florentine architect. After six hundred years (1418-1434) the Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore is still\u00a0the world&#8217;s biggest Dome\u00a0made of brick. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senza-categoria-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guideintoscana.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guideintoscana.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guideintoscana.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guideintoscana.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guideintoscana.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.guideintoscana.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6202,"href":"https:\/\/www.guideintoscana.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions\/6202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guideintoscana.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guideintoscana.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guideintoscana.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guideintoscana.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}