The Feud That Sparked The Renaissance: How Brunelleschi And Ghiberti Changed The Art World
- Author: Paul Robert Walker
- Narrator: Simon Vance
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 9:31:23
Synopsis
Joining the bestsellers Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, a lively and intriguing tale of two artists whose competitive spirit brought to life one of the world’s most magnificent structures and ignited the Renaissance
The dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore, the great cathedral of Florence, is among the most enduring symbols of the Renaissance, an equal to the works of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Its designer was Filippo Brunelleschi, a temperamental architect and inventor who rediscovered the techniques of mathematical perspective. Yet the completion of the dome was not Brunelleschi’s glory alone. He was forced to share the commission with his archrival, the canny and gifted sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti.
In this lush, imaginative history—a fascinating true story of artistic genius and personal triumph—Paul Robert Walker breathes life into these two talented, passionate artists and the competitive drive that united and dived them. As it illuminates fascinating individuals from Donatello and Masaccio to Cosimo de’Medici and Leon Battista Alberti, The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance offers a glorious tour of 15th-century Florence, a bustling city on the verge of greatness in a time of flourishing creativity, rivalry, and genius.
Chapters
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chapter 01
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chapter 02
Duration: 10min -
chapter 03
Duration: 31min -
chapter 04
Duration: 33min -
chapter 05
Duration: 28min -
chapter 06
Duration: 21min -
chapter 07
Duration: 26min -
chapter 08
Duration: 33min -
chapter 09
Duration: 31min -
chapter 10
Duration: 27min -
chapter 11
Duration: 34min -
chapter 12
Duration: 37min -
chapter 13
Duration: 19min -
chapter 14
Duration: 16min -
chapter 15
Duration: 33min -
chapter 16
Duration: 21min -
chapter 17
Duration: 20min -
chapter 18
Duration: 23min -
chapter 19
Duration: 16min -
chapter 20
Duration: 27min