FAH101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Plate Armour, Andrea Del Verrocchio, Lorenzo Ghiberti
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Continuation of last week"s lecture (competition & sculpture) Brunelleschi - what happened to him? see him again in early 1410"s. By early 1300"s the nave & up to the base of the dome in the cathedral had been completed. Had envisioned a cathedral so large - ran into a problem with execution of dome because the crossing (width span) was so large. 140 feet in width (outstripped pantheon) was largest dome in all christiandom until st peter"s. When have a problem have a competition. Ask for architects and builders to submit design to try to determine how to do it. Traditional building methods weren"t going to work largely because of costs - would require massive scaffolding. With domes always have to consider weight in relation to the width that its going to cover - don"t want it to be so heavy that it collapses in on itself.
