A History of European Art

Lecture 12: Early Renaissance Architecture in Florence

King, Brunelleschi’s Dome.

Murray, The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance.

1. How does architecture reÀ ect our cultural traditions and values?
   (Consider Brunelleschi’s Hospital of the Innocents. Would this be
   built today?)


2. Many architects, such as Brunelleschi and Alberti, were also artists.
   How are the two subjects related?

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