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Why Is It Important To Build Brunelleschi's Dome?

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Brunelleschi’s Dome is one of the most beautiful and significant masterpieces of the renaissance. it started with a competition of sorts to find an architect to build a dome over the existing cathedral. The reward for the winner was 200 gold florins. He comes up with a completely revolutionary new method of building a dome. He uses a two dome approach. Instead of having one solid very heavy dome he designs a much lighter dome that is taller because he uses two domes. This method had never been tired before. Not only is this dome new but it also has no scaffolding. Brunelleschi has to devise a method to lift heavy material up to great heights. He builds a very complete crane and pulley system, something that no one was able to recreate until
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