Filippo Brunelleschi's dome over Florence Cathedral (1436) was the largest masonry dome ever built at the time and remained the largest for 500 years. Built without scaffolding using herringbone brickwork of his own invention, it inaugurated the Renaissance and proved that the ancient Romans' technical achievements could be surpassed. He also invented linear perspective β one of art history's most consequential single innovations.

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