The Pope Nicholas V: The First Artistic Expectations Of The Renaissance

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The Pope Nicholas V formed in the Vatican a large classical library, with more than five thousand manuscripts. The first artistic manifestations of the Renaissance, in the early fifteenth century, occur in the field of sculpture. Three Florentines made some innovations that supposed a break with the conventions of the Gothic style. The first was Filippo Brunelleschi, the precursor of linear perspective. Became architect, he was the first builder of the Renaissance. He designed the huge octagonal dome of the cathedral of Florence, completed in 1436, for which he studied in depth classical architecture, especially the colossal pantheon of Agrippa. This dome is considered as a feat both from an artistic and engineering point of view since the

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