I chose to do my research on Brunelleschi’s dome on the cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy because I am fascinated by the subject “humanities” and love to learn about famous architecture, sculpture and art. Filippo Brunelleschi was a talented architect who took on the challenge to build a self-supporting dome larger than the Pantheon (built in ancient Rome). For thousands of years no one was able to accomplish this feat, so Brunelleschi took on the challenge and, between 1420 and 1436, was able to achieve a magnificent architectural miracle that to this day is still a topic of debate about how he did it. (Jones)

In order to accomplish this magnificent task, Brunelleschi had to study extensively the structure and construction