Filippo Brunelleschi, Florence Italy -How an Amateur Built the World’s Biggest Dome Firenze

THE BRUNELLESCHI´S SECRET: DOME - How an Amateur Built the World’s Biggest Dome. In 1418, Filippo Brunelleschi was tasked with building the largest dome ever seen at the time. He had no formal architecture training. Yet experts still don’t fully understand the brilliant methods he used in contructing the dome, which tops the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence, Italy. Read more about the dome in National Geographic magazine online: Per realizzare la cupola