Talk:Filippo Brunelleschi

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This is the discusion area for Filippo Brunelleschi. Feel free to add your thoughts about him.

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Contents 1 This page 2 Filippo Brunelleschi 3 Filippo Brunelleschi 4 Vandalism 5 multiple breakthroughs by Brunnelesci

[edit] This page

I just created the header for this page and I think more people should add to this dicussion, he was a great man and accomplished a lot. As I said before, feel free to add your thoughts about him. Wizkid1

[edit] Filippo Brunelleschi

It's me again and I just wanted to say that I'm makeing a project on Filippo Brunelleschi and i'm learning that he is a pretty cool guy (he built the largest masonry dome in the world, the Santa Maria del Fiore), thats all. Wizkid1

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Hey guys, do any of you guys know where I can find some primary sources on Brunelleschi? I am doing a History paper on him and I have not been able to find one document specifically written about him while he was alive. The closest thing is a book by Vasari but it was written 104 years after Brunelleschi died. any suggestions. The Paper is due middle of November '07. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I know a lot about him already, I just need the sources to bring credibility to my arguments. 09/08/07. Agnobles

[edit] Filippo Brunelleschi

I'm working on a project on Filippo and I was wondering if anyone had any websites that would help me with my reseach if any one has any information please leave a comment...Thank you

How interesting is this? I am also doing a project on Brunelleschi and I have a question about the doors to the baptistry, did he do it or did he let the other guy do it? Sites on the internet say either this or that. Any real fact you have?

Ghiberti got the door job. And remember to sign and date your posts; I have no idea if this information is helpful to you because I don't know how old this post is.--DarshaAssant 10:27, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Why does this article get vandalised more than other comparable articles, e.g. other past architects? AWhiteC 21:35, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't know but it does seem to get hit frequently - just look at the history in the last few days alone. What to do? NickInBigD ^(Hey!) 22:14, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

This article has a long "What links here" list; maybe that's the reason it tends to be more targeted than other articles. What to do? Some people, like us, need to have it on our watch lists; "Friends of Brunelleschi"? AWhiteC 23:10, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

I've noticed that Vasari gets a lot of vandalism too. Maybe it's frustrated school kids who are aggravate about their art research assignments. NickInBigD ^(Hey!) 05:24, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

That's probably it. I had to revert to an older version again. I came across this when working on a paper for AP European History - I shouldn't use Wikipedia for this kind of thing, I always spend longer making revisions here than on my own essays! Ministry of Silly Walks 02:02, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] multiple breakthroughs by Brunnelesci

the breakthrough level of Brunellesci is not shown in the article as for these next major inventions/ reinventions

as where no one could figure out to build the dome of the Duomo in Florence, Italy without internal supports all way down to the floor (that dome is up 200 feet in the air way way high up) but Bruenlesci did it , figured it out, by herring bone pattern of brick laying which spreads the weight evenly and in balance, without needing to have internal support for the dome

IF YOU "ADD" ALSO chains about the dome that HOLD IN the outward push of the weight... figured out by Brunellesci having studied the Pantheon in Rome including its iron collar which also acts to hold in the outward push of its dome's weight ... (Pantheon has an unsupported dome 150 feet high and also with no internal supports)

these things today no one can understand and understand the precise weight and method of solving the outward push problem except by using a computer ...

also a 3rd brunelesci huge invention that is claimed changed all architecture is his figuring out and understnading "single point perspective" ... mentioned in the article but needing further explanation here in these notes or the article by an expert...

it is claimed this changed architecture from then until to today and onward into the future ... esp allowing putting down on paper architectual plans while before that was not able to be done...

(the history channel has info on this or history engineering channel) note the Greeks IT APPEARS TO ME understood all this from the get go as DEMONSTRATED by the Parthenon with its multiple inventions of using curves in perspective to appear to the mind as correct when in fact entirely curved as the column curves in the Parthenon and the bldgs length wise "bow" or curve... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.216.68.176 (talk) 08:02, 20 February 2008 (UTC)