Filippo Brunelleschi Quotes
I propose to build for eternity.
As soon as the king dies, his successor is immediately vested in the rights, duties, and prerogatives of the king.
Stalin was right. The Russian people even survived him and his bloody tyranny.
Filippo Brunelleschi, considered to be a founding father of Renaissance architecture, was an Italian architect, designer and sculptor, and is now recognized to be the first modern engineer, planner, and sole construction supervisor. He is most famous for designing the dome of the Florence Cathedral, a feat of engineering that had not been accomplished since antiquity, as well as the development of the mathematical technique of linear perspective in art which governed pictorial depictions of space until the late 19th century and influenced the rise of modern science. His accomplishments also include other architectural works, sculpture, mathematics, engineering, and ship design. His principal surviving works can be found in Florence, Italy.