Filippo Brunelleschi

Shortly after his arrival in Florence Brunelleschi passion complex engineering task - building a dome over the city the Cathedral (1420-1436 gg.), - His erection began almost simultaneously with the construction of San Lorenzo. The idea of a dome - octahedral ogive - the Gothic, and was already scheduled builder cathedral Arnolfo di Cambio, kampanilu cathedral built, as is usually believed to be the great Giotto. The complexity of the construction was not only to build the dome, but also in the construction of special devices that would operate at high altitude, which seemed then impossible. Council of the City Brunelleschi to make an easy 8-edges of the brick dome, which is going to be out of bounds-«shares» and fastened on top architectural lantern, he also volunteered to create a variety of machines to be lifted up and working at height. Dome (his height is 42 m) was built without a building on the land of forests, and it consists of two shells connected ribs and horizontal rings. Towering over the city, the dome, with its aspirations up and flexible elastic loop to identify characteristic silhouette of Florence, and by contemporaries, he conceived the symbol of a new era - the Renaissance. Slava architect and the city, and that the dome itself consecrated Pope Eugene IV.