Essays Tagged: "Filippo Brunelleschi"

Artists and Art and Learning during the Renaissance

tury. There were three Florentines, who were originally goldsmiths, made crucial changes. They were Filippo Brunelleschi, Lorenzo Ghiberti, and Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi.Brunelleschi was the el ...

(11 pages) 504 0 4.4 Mar/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

The Italian Renaissance. Speaks of Donatello, Brunelleschi, da Vinci , and Michelangelo

nce was home to the sculptor Donato di Niccollo di Bette Bardi, called Donatello, and the architect Filippo Brunelleschi. The two were the elite persons in their field.Donatello was the preeminent gen ... d in 1466 at the age of eighty (Symonds).A contemporary of Donatello was the architect and engineer Filippo Brunelleschi. Brunelleschi was the second of three sons of Ser Brunellesco di Lippo Lapi and ...

(9 pages) 237 0 4.7 Apr/1995

Subjects: Art Essays

Renaissance in Europe, Art and Architecture, painting, sculpture, architecture, and allied arts

ree Florentines, who were originally trained as goldsmiths, made crucial innovations.The eldest was Filippo Brunelleschi, who developed linear perspective. He eventually became an architect, the first ...

(18 pages) 811 0 4.1 Mar/1996

Subjects: Art Essays

Letter to christopher columbus

lorence, I completely enjoyed being surrounded by busy markets. My last favorite place to visit was Brunelleschi's Dome. When I traveled to Frotezza di Belvedere, I noted that it was the shape ... in the morning since it is the least crowded. The last wonderful place I visited was Brunelleschi's Dome which was a fantastic sight. Brunellleschi's Dome was built so masterfully that ...

(2 pages) 50 1 3.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Masaccio's legacy

y in their predecessors. That this is true is shown by Florence , that has produced in the same age Filippo Brunelleschi, Donatello, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Paolo Ucello and Masaccio, each one pre-eminent i ... xemplary fresco in Santa Maria Novella. Mathematical perspective is what the sculptor and architect Filippo Bruneleschi came up with when he wanted to devise a method of using a geometrical constructi ...

(11 pages) 56 0 3.7 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Masaccio, Donatello, and Brunelleschi - Renaissance Pioneers

ists was generally considered to be the painter Masaccio, the sculptor Donatello, and the architect Brunelleschi. They applied Humanist thinking to art by using the styles of the classical world, inst ... ned influential throughout the Renaissance.He learned about mathematical proportion from his friend Brunelleschi, which was crucial to his revival of the principles of scientific perspective. From Don ...

(4 pages) 77 0 4.4 Jun/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

The essay was written from the artist's prespective. I had to put myself in the shoes of an artist and describe what I thought was the value of art.

ife or children to ease me into death. I have worked with some of the greatest artists of our time; Filippo Brunelleschi, Lorenzo Ghiberti, and Michelozzo Di Bartolomeo, and have made friends with man ... ile carving Zuccone. I found that the marble responded when I would say "Speak, speak or be damned!"Filippo's depiction of the Crucifix had an astounding effect on my life. In 1412 I was commissioned ...

(6 pages) 95 3 4.7 Oct/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Brief Essay on Rennaisance

r of logic led to many other advancements in other fields. For example, the discovery of optics led Filippo Brunelleschi to the discovery of perspective. The discovery of tomography led to the discove ...

(2 pages) 44 0 3.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Brunelleschi's dome

I'm writing about Brunelleschi's dome atop the Cathedral of Florence, I chose this work because it not only illustrate ... cture and the first thing you see when you enter Florence. Another beautiful thing about it is that Brunelleschi wasn't an architect, or a carpenter, he was a goldsmith and a clock maker. The dome was ... ter and was basically erected literally straight into thin air (King 151).It all began in 1418 when Brunelleschi won the commission to take on the Cathedral that had been sitting dome less in the midd ...

(4 pages) 30 0 2.6 May/2007

Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts

Themes of Italian Renaissance Art

cept of space, as well as anatomy. Lorenzo Ghiberti studied the anatomical proportions of the body, Filippo Brunelleschi was interested in mathematics in architecture, Leone Battista Alberti, who was ...

(3 pages) 48 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art