Notes from The Oxford Companion to Western Art, s.v. ‘Brunelleschi’
–full name: Filippo di Ser Brunellesco Brunelleschi
–1377-1446; ‘Florentine architect and sculptor credited with initiating the revival of the architectural principles of ancient Rome’
–competed for commission of bronze doors of Florentine Baptistery in 1401, but lost to Ghiberti; his relief of the Sacrifice of Isaac is in the Bargello; then probably visited Rome w/ Donatello to investigate ‘the construction and proportions of ancient buildings’
–afterwards ‘he adapted classical architectural elements to Tuscan Romanesque forms’
–’With his design for the Scolari oratory, S. Maria degli Angeli (begun 1434), he initiated the centrally planned Renaissance building, based on the circle—according to humanists the perfect geometric form’
–around 1413 B. formulated ‘the kind of system of linear perspective used by Masaccio’
–responsible for construction of dome of Florence Cathedral
