Rometogether, measuring and sketching, and returned full of an en-thusiasm about all they had seen, which had far-reaching conse-quences. The huge dome with which Brunelleschi later crownedthe church is always spoken of as the great work of the EarlyRenaissance. A great work it surely is, but… … The Italian Renaissance 21 wonder was built without the aid of wooden centring. Its bar-ren grandeur certainly suggests little artistic excellence exceptsuch as it obtains from immense size. It was, without doubt, thefirst great dome of its kind, and the prototype of innumerable laterand of some…
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