This is the story of the construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence, beautiful and famous work of Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446), already regarded by his contemporaries as the 'greatest architect from' antiquity, famous for finding the solution to the seemingly insoluble problem of the dome. It was celebrated as the innovation to have passed the model of the Pantheon in Rome on a large octagon have a bow pinned to a hundred feet high and twenty meters radio, dual roof. became the implementer of human genius idea from its predecessors, with the original idea is from 'year 1367. It is a combination of 'engineering and aesthetic principles of ancient and modern. In 1404 you advice Brunelleschi but only several years after he began to think in the problem. This octagon was so great and had a long and tough wood to make the rib (the mold).
So do studies of the construction methods of the Romans (this did not use the ribs) and even the depths of a 'single comprehensive building retains all: the Pantheon in Rome, even use the Gothic tradition. Well could cover the forty-meter diameter dome without rib in the Roman manner, and using the Gothic manner twenty-four nerves. For the construction created many effective auxiliary machinery essential to put in place the four million bricks weighing thirty-seven thousand tons needed for the dome.
Brunelleschi receives different influences both construction and aesthetic. But the important thing was to create by himself, he placed his first work in conscious opposition to all the existing, although I think that refreshed the 'ancient art, but had created new human! This artwork was very large to be exceeded by now: the first was to be burnished and to that end he dedicated his life with a lot of work.
Eventually this process of construction is an 'era, an' other way of life, another time. Today we talk of "real time" thinking obsessively in the production and consumption. It can be difficult to understand how this man, engineer and artist -With love and courage, he spent twenty years by instituting cover the diameter of the dome, which turned out successfully and with such beauty.
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Robert Stener
