HISTART 62 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Montesquieu, Denis Diderot, Immanuel Kant
20 Oct 2016
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The understanding of linear perspective and the interest in geometrical experiments helped filippo brunelleschi to conceptualize his projects in architecture and engineering. Size and quality of the dome of santa maria del fiore (florence. Cathedral) are unique and the cupolone"s secrets have only been understood in recent decades. Thanks to brunelleschi, architecture was firmly integrated in the larger, multi-discipline cultural project of the florentine elite around. Alberti, brunelleschi, donatello, ( to filippo son of lawyer. Brunellesco, leon battista albert , see alberti"s dedication of on. The (anachronistic) concept of a florentine enlightenment (holmes) in relation to humanism is connected to the ideas of clarity, purposefulness, and structure of architecture in relation to the people of a city (florence). Potentially shared ideals or traits of humanism and the later. Enlightenment can be connected to the ideals dominating architecture, urban planning, and perspectival experiments.
