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Renaissance Art and Architecture
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian artist and architect who lived a century after Filippo Brunelleschi. He designed a
building for the municipal offices of Florence that is used as an art museum
today, but he is most famous for his
biographies of Renaissance artists. Look at the questions below to
determine which paragraphs from Vasari's Lives
of the Artists to read. Learn how Fillippo Brunelleschi cleverly won the
competition to build the cupola of Santa
Maria del
Fiore cathedral and then, answer the questions. (Note that your
text and Lives of the Artists use different
spellings
for the artist's name. There are frequently discrepancies in the
spelling of names in old manuscripts,
particularly
when the documents have been translated from one language
to another.)
In the paragraph that begins "Filippo, as we have said, entered into competition with Lorenzo....". Filippo leaves
Florence and goes to Rome to study architecture. What two ideas did
Filippo have for studying Roman architecture?
(Note: The Pantheon was built as a temple to the gods
of Rome between A.D. 118 and 125. It became a Christian
Church in the 600s, and is now a museum.)
Answer:
In the paragraph that begins "The other architects meanwhile being dismayed...", the people in charge of building the
cathedral's cupola ask Brunelleschi for advice. What does he tell them?
(Note: When the author refers to a "cupola" he means the dome of the cathedral.)
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