Filippo Brunelleschi

Foreword and acknowledgments

Introductio

1. Brunelleschi and his world

2. Goldsmith and sculptor

The competition relief for the baptistery doors

The crucifix in S. Maria Novella

The school of Brunelleschi ; lost and attributed works ; other sculptors

3. The Foundling Hospital

Piazza della SS. Annunziata

Construction of the hospital

4. The Palazzo di Parte Guelfa and Florentine private palaces

Brunelleschi and Florentine private palaces

5. The old sacristy of S. Lorenzo

6. The Barbadori Chapel in S. Felicita

7. Experiments with perspective

8. The dome of S. Maria del Fiore

9. The basilicas of S. Lorenzo and S. Spirito

Background ; town-planning

S. Lorenzo

S. Spirito

10. The Pazzi Chapel

11. Military works, I: Lucca, Milan, Pisa, Vicopisano and Rimini

12. Late works: the rotunda of S. Maria degli Angeli and the lantern and exedrae of Florence Cathedral

The rotunda of S. Maria degli Angeli

The lantern of Florence Cathedral

The exedrae of Florence Cathedral

13. The pulpit of S. Maria Novella

14. Theatrical machinery

15. Military works, II: the Signa and Chianti areas / by Riccardo Pacciani

The Signa area

The Chianti area

Conclusion

16. Brunelleschi and literature

Dante

Verse

"La Novella del Grasso Legnaiuolo"

Two early lives of Brunelleschi

Chronology : Brunelleschi and his times

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Illustration credits