1. Filippo Brunelleschi Filippo Brunelleschi is considered to be the first modern engineer. By Kevin Honeywell

2. Life In Florence In 1401 he entered a competition to design a local baptistery's new doors. He designed a pair of doors from bronze, but he never entered them into the competition. – He wanted full control of the competition, which he was not allowed to have, and so he never entered. – His rival Ghiberti won the competition. – Then, he decided to leave the city of Florence altogether.

3. Life In Rome Filippo Brunelleschi decided to move to Rome. – He went and lived with Donatello. – They studied Ancient Roman architecture together. – Brunelleschi was particularly interested in the invention of the vault as seen on the Pantheon. – He stayed for a total of ten years.

4. Return To Florence Filippo Brunelleschi returned to Florence. – The Silk Merchants Guild had him build them an orphanage in 1419. – He redesigned the Medici perish church before this. The re-appearing of pillars in these structures caused for a boom in their construction, which had been unseen since Ancient Roman times. – This included Roman style windows, capitals, and carved stone, too.

5. Florence’s Cathedral Dome Filippo Brunelleschi decided to come up with a design for a dome for Florence’s Cathedral. – The authorities had called for such a dome, but they were skeptical of Filippo Brunelleschi’s design for the dome. – Timber was sparse in Tuscany, which meant they could not construct a scaffolding. – His design contained an inner dome surrounded by a brick dome. – This was all to be held together by nine sandstone. rings.

6. Problems With Building The Dome Many problems arose while building the dome which he had to overcome, such as: – The dome took sixteen years to complete. – Three deaths occurred during its construction. – A hoist was built so oxen could put up the sandstone pieces, and it included the first reverse gear. – The chance of death was lowered by keeping workers on schedules, employing a safety net, and he kept the builders sober. – The lack of timber forced them to use oxen over scaffolding.

7. Benefits Of The Dome Many benefits came from the Cathedral’s dome. – Filippo Brunelleschi invented perspective while sketching a model. – Filippo Brunelleschi invented the reverse gear to lift oxen. – The dome being 37,000 tons and containing 4,000,000,000 bricks made it a triumph for all of Florence. – Cosimo de'Medici invited the pope to spend Easter Sunday of 1436 at the dome.

8. Picture 1 Florence’s Cathedral where Brunelleschi added the dome on top.

9. Pictures 2 Pictures of Filippo Brunelleschi

10. Pictures 3 Rome was a great inspiration for Brunelleschi's architecture, which started the Greco-Roman style rebirth.