MIDTERM PROJECT
MGT 530 – Spring 2013
Sevinç ŞAN
Lecturer: Musa Güran TATLIOĞLU
CONTENT
Synopsis - FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI Early Years The Transition to Architecture Commissions Santa Maria del Fiore: The Florence Cathedral The Reinvention of Linear Perspective Other Works Death List of Major Works REFERENCES 2 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 9
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FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI
Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 – April 15, 1446) was an architect, the first modern engineer, an innovative problem solver and one of the pioneers of early Renaissance architecture in Italy. He is perhaps most famous for his discovery
of perspective and for engineering the dome of the Florence Cathedral of Santa
Maria del Fiore with the aid of machines that he invented specifically for the project, but his accomplishments also include other architectural works, sculpture, mathematics, engineering and even ship design. His principal surviving works are to be found in Florence, Italy.
Figure.1: Filippo Brunelleschi
Early Years
Born in 1377 in Florence, Italy, Filippo Brunelleschi's father was Brunellesco Di Lippo, who was a public
official notary in Florence, while Filippo's mother was Giuliana Spini, who was related to both the Spini and Aldobrandini families. Brunellesco and Giuliana had three sons; Filippo was the second of three sons. The young Filippo was given a literary and mathematical education intended to enable him to follow in the footsteps of his father, a civil servant, but he was attracted to an artistic career and determined to follow that route. Brunelleschi initially trained as a goldsmith and sculptor, beginning his apprenticeship in 1392, enrolled in the workshop Arte della Seta in Florence, the silk merchants' guild, which also included goldsmiths, metalworkers and bronze workers. Around the turn of the century, he was designated a “master goldsmith”. An important influence on him at this time was Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli who was a merchant and medical doctor....
