The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World

Walker, Robert, Paul; Paul Robert Walker

ISBN 10: 0380807920 / ISBN 13: 9780380807925

Published by Perennial/An Imprint of HarperCollins, Publishers, Inc., New York, 2003

About this Item

269 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear and crisp pages. Pen markings throughout text.

Seller Inventory # 2iCe0056

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World
• Publisher: Perennial/An Imprint of HarperCollins, Publishers, Inc., New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0380807920
• ISBN 13: 9780380807925
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Archivo/CORBIS (Cover Photo)
• Edition: 1st Perenial Edition Published: 2003
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • European Literature, Culture, History & Studies
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research
  • Renaissance & Gothic Studies, Enlightenment Era

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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.

About the Author

Paul Robert Walker has written twenty books on subjects ranging from the Italian Renaissance and the American West to folklore, baseball, and miracles. A former teacher and journalist, he lives in Escondido, California, with his wife and two children.