Andrea di Pietro della Gondola became Andrea Palladio under a patron’s tutelage, then built farm villas across the Veneto whose 1570 pattern book reached Inigo Jones and Thomas Jefferson.
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How Brunelleschi raised Florence’s dome without a scaffold
For 50 years the crossing of Florence Cathedral stood open to the sky until Filippo Brunelleschi’s herringbone brickwork and sandstone chains let the dome build itself, course by course, from 1420 to 1436.