Sandwiched In with Dennis Raverty - Filippo Brunelleschi

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Lecture

Age Group:

Adults
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Join award winning teacher and art historian Dennis Raverty for an illustrated presentation about Filippo Brunelleschi: Maestro of Art and Disegno.  Brunelleschi is best known for designing the dome of the Florence Cathedral, the Church of San Lorenzo and other buildings in and around Florence. In fact, Brunelleschi's architectural influence is so strong there that it is hardly an exaggeration to say that Florence is in large part Brunelleschi's city.

But he is perhaps even more important as the artist who first discovered the laws of linear perspective, which is a mathematical, scientific system for representing three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface that has been widely used by painters, draftsmen and designers ever since it was codified by him in the early 1400s.

This program is part of the Library's celebration of Italian Cultural Heritage.