Building the Italian Renaissance
Brunelleschi's Dome and the Florence Cathedral
By Paula Kay Lazrus
92 pp., 8 x 10, 22 halftones, 1 maps, 2 graphs, notes
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-5339-6
Published: July 2019 -
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-5340-2
Published: July 2019
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Three teams compete for the honor to construct the dome, a project overseen by the Arte Della Lana (wool workers guild) and judged by them and a group of Florentine citizens who are merchants, aristocrats, learned men, and laborers. Their goal is to make the case for the building to live up to the ideals of Florence. The game gives students a chance to enter into the world of Florence in the early 1400s to develop an understanding of the challenges and complexity of such a major artistic and technical undertaking while providing an opportunity to grasp the interdisciplinary nature of major public works.
About the Author
Paula Kay Lazrus is an associate professor in the Institute of Core Studies at St John’s University in New York. An archaeologist working in Italy for nearly forty years, she is also the past president of the New York Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.
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