The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance..., Paul Robert Walker
The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance..., Paul Robert Walker
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The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance
How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World

Author: Paul Robert Walker

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 9 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 08/04/2020

Synopsis

Joining the bestsellers Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, a lively and intriguing tale of two artists whose competitive spirit brought to life one of the world’s most magnificent structures and ignited the Renaissance The dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore, the great cathedral of Florence, is among the most enduring symbols of the Renaissance, an equal to the works of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Its designer was Filippo Brunelleschi, a temperamental architect and inventor who rediscovered the techniques of mathematical perspective. Yet the completion of the dome was not Brunelleschi’s glory alone. He was forced to share the commission with his archrival, the canny and gifted sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti. In this lush, imaginative history—a fascinating true story of artistic genius and personal triumph—Paul Robert Walker breathes life into these two talented, passionate artists and the competitive drive that united and dived them. As it illuminates fascinating individuals from Donatello and Masaccio to Cosimo de’Medici and Leon Battista Alberti, The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance offers a glorious tour of 15th-century Florence, a bustling city on the verge of greatness in a time of flourishing creativity, rivalry, and genius.

About Paul Robert Walker

Paul Robert Walker has written twenty books on subjects ranging from the Italian Renaissance and the American West to folklore, baseball, and miracles. A former teacher and journalist, he lives in Escondido, California, with his wife and two children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Heather on December 04, 2017

Filippo Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti were Italian artists in the early 1400s. They were rivals, they competed for the same jobs, and sometimes they worked together. Their art marks the beginning of the Renaissance. The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance was often textbooky and I occasionally fou......more

Goodreads review by Dreepa on October 27, 2014

I wanted to like this book. The very premise that there was a 'feud' .. well he never wrote about it beyond the fact that one artist lost one commission. Hardly a feud. I did like learning the history from the early Renaissance a period I do know know much about. Also the story was very choppy .. didn'......more

Goodreads review by Trish on September 14, 2013

This book drags at many point, but is interesting where he gets into the meat of Brunelleschi's work. Not sure there was an actual feud. Seems more like competition where commissions were at times hard to obtain. Wondering where the notes are for the author's thoughts. If this is non- fiction they a......more

Goodreads review by Ramesh on December 30, 2018

A magnificent book , makes me want to drop everything and visit Florence to see all the works that these great men created. The narrative reads like a gripping novel . I cannot recommend it enough......more

Goodreads review by Irena on April 11, 2024

I'm pretty sure that if I hadn't visited Florence a year ago and had zero previous knowledge about Brunelleschi's dome and Ghiberti's doors, the first chapter of this book, with its constant bumping around without ever stating clearly what this was all about, would have driven me crazy. As it is, I......more

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