The Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore has purchased an previously unknown early Renaissance sculpture, a portrait of Filippo Brunelleschi, the great architect already lauded by his contemporaries for his ...

Six hundred years ago, Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi finished one and two in a contest to design the decorative bronze doors that now grace Florence's beloved Baptistry. Ghiberti, the ...

In the early days of the Renaissance, Filippo Brunelleschi changed visual art forever. Brunelleschi – the humble architect who designed Florence’s Duomo – used his skill as an architect to formalise ...