Building the Italian Renaissance: Brunelleschi's Dome and the Florence Cathedral by Lazrus, Paula Kay
Building the Italian Renaissance: Brunelleschi's Dome and the Florence Cathedral by Lazrus, Paula Kay

Building the Italian Renaissance: Brunelleschi's Dome and the Florence Cathedral

Building the Italian Renaissance focuses on the competition to select a team to execute the final architectural...
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Building the Italian Renaissance: Brunelleschi's Dome and the Florence Cathedral by Lazrus, Paula Kay

Building the Italian Renaissance: Brunelleschi's Dome and the Florence Cathedral

$90.72
Building the Italian Renaissance: Brunelleschi's Dome and the Florence Cathedral by Lazrus, Paula Kay

Building the Italian Renaissance: Brunelleschi's Dome and the Florence Cathedral

$90.72
Author: Paula Kay Lazrus
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Building the Italian Renaissance focuses on the competition to select a team to execute the final architectural challenge of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore--the erection of its dome. Although the model for the dome was widely known, the question of how this was to be accomplished was the great challenge of the age. This dome would be the largest ever built. This is foremost a technical challenge but it is also a philosophical one. The project takes place at an important time for Florence. The city is transitioning from a High Medieval world view into the new dynamics and ideas and will lead to the full flowering of what we know as the Renaissance. Thus the competition at the heart of this game plays out against the background of new ideas about citizenship, aesthetics, history (and its application to the present), and new technology. The central challenge is to expose players to complex and multifaceted situations and to individuals that animated life in Florence in the early 1400s. Humanism as a guiding philosophy is taking root and scholars are looking for ways to link the mercantile city to the glories of Rome and to the wisdom of the ancients across many fields. The aesthetics of the classical world (buildings, plastic arts and intellectual pursuits) inspired wonder, perhaps even envy, but the new approaches to the past by scholars such as Petrarch suggested that perhaps the creative classes are not simply crafts people, but men of ideas.

Three teams compete for the honor to construct the dome, a project overseen by the Arte Della Lana (wool workers guild) and judged by them and a group of Florentine citizens who are merchants, aristocrats, learned men, and laborers. Their goal is to make the case for the building to live up to the ideals of Florence. The game gives students a chance to enter into the world of Florence in the early 1400s to develop an understanding of the challenges and complexity of such a major artistic and technical undertaking while providing an opportunity to grasp the interdisciplinary nature of major public works.



Author: Paula Kay Lazrus
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 07/01/2019
Pages: 92
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.19d
ISBN: 9781469653396

About the Author
Lazrus, Paula Kay: - Paula Kay Lazrus is an associate professor in the Institute of Core Studies at St John's University in New York. An archaeologist working in Italy for nearly forty years, she is also the past president of the New York Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.

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