Brunelleschi's Dome. How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture.
New York: Walker & Company, 2000. Item #1038 8vo. 215 x 150 mm., [8 1/2 x 6 inches]. [xii], 194 pp. Illustrated with 19 black and white images in the text. Original brown boards, dust jacket; near fine copy.
First American edition. "Ross King has brought a novelist's eye and ear to his telling of the story of Filippo Brunelleschi's stone masterpiece rising course by course over the rooftops of Florence. It is a compelling story of one of the greatest structural engineering achievements of the Renaissance." - Henry Petroski
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