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Ross King.
Brunelleschi's Dome: The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence.
Size: London: Pimlico, 3rd impression (previously issued 2001; hardback edition was 2000).
ISBN 0712664807;
ISBN-13: 9780712664806.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Biddles Ltd., Guildford.
Size: 153x215x14mm.
Page count: [viii],184pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: a little wear on the covers, especially at the edges and corners; covers and page edges slightly grubby; pages yellowed with age; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £4.50
plus P&P £2.50 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Vintage Paperback edn. in print at £8.99]
Weight without packaging: 264g.

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To this day, Brunelleschi's dome remains the highest and widest masonry dome ever built: "Where Longitude had ocean wastes, Brunelleschi's Dome has vertigo" (William Weaver, Spectator).

Contents: A more beautiful & honourable temple; Goldsmith of San Giovanni; Treasure hunters; An ass & a babbler; Rivals; Men without name or family; Some unheard-of machine; Chain of stone; Tale of the fat carpenter; The pointed fifth; Bricks & mortar; Circle by circle; Monster of the Arno; Debacle at Lucca; Bad to worse; Consecration; The lantern; Ingenii Viri Philippi Brunelleschi; Nest of delights.

Illustrations: 25 monochrome illustrations, plus 8 pages of colour plates
Maps & plans: 1

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 1 page
Index: yes

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See also | Architecture | Florence | Renaissance | Cathedrals |
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