Filippo di ser Brunellesco Lapi (Filippo Brunelleschi)

Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 – April 15, 1446) was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. All of his principal works are in Florence, Italy. As explained by Antonio Manetti, who knew Brunelleschi and who wrote his biography, Brunelleschi "was granted such honors as to be buried in the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, and with a marble bust, which they say was carved from life, and placed there in perpetual memory with such a splendid epitaph." Very little is known about the early life of Brunelleschi; the only sources are Antonio Manetti and Giorgio Vasari ...

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