Ever seen a city built around a dream? Because that’s Florence. And right at its heart, this giant terracotta dome. This is the Duomo of Florence. Officially, Santa Maria del Fiore. But honestly, it ...

Historian Ross King answers listener questions about his book Brunelleschi's Dome. An incredible story of one man's determination to build an apparently impossible structure, it's a tale of ingenuity, ...

The history says the mechanism was harder-edged than that. Proximity was necessary. It was nowhere near sufficient. What Florence had that a coworking space does not was structured friction, collision ...

I don't remember exactly when I first learned about Filippo Brunelleschi, but I know I wrote his name in dry-erase marker on the plastic wet wall panel that inexplicably covered the backside of my ...

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Among the many things I love about Italy is how the Renaissance can be spliced into your travels. Imagine: In Florence, you can sleep in a converted 16th-century monastery that’s just a block from ...

Christie’s announces the online sale Face Time: People in Art through the Ages, a themed auction which looks at portraiture and the representation of people in art, whilst tracing the evolution of the ...

Set within two extraordinary historic structures, a circular Byzantine tower dating to the sixth century and a meticulously restored medieval church, the hotel embodies Florence’s singular ability to ...

Everyone loves a good, harmless prank. This was especially true for Filippo Brunelleschi, a Florentine man who famously got back at his friend for having failed to show up at a dinner party in ...

A virtual reality experience debuts in Florence that allows visitors to explore the construction of Brunelleschi's Dome through a historical, technical and biographical narrative. The project is a ...