... the construction of Santa Maria del Fiore and was immediately attracted by the problem of the cupola (Pic. #1); his design won the competition in 1418 and in 1423 he was put in complete charge of the building construction.""2 The completion of this important construction, carried out with a special technique that made it possible to create the curves of the huge cupola without a supporting framework, took most of his life and formed the basis of Renaissance architecture (Pic. #2). Stemming off the Renaissance era the ... sequential in their developments, but instead consisted of constan...

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