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architectural design.

Le travail de Vitruve plaît particulièrement à Léonard et à Francesco car il confère une dimension concrète à une analogie remontant à l’Antiquité et plus précisément à Platon, une métaphore définitoire de l’humanisme renaissant : la relation entre le microcosme que constitue l’homme et le macrocosme que constitue la terre.

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Francesco di Giorgio from Siena.8 Thirteen years older than Leonardo, he was another exemplar of an artisan who combined art, engineering, and architecture. He had begun as a painter, moved as a young man to Urbino to work as an architect, returned to Siena to run the underground aqueduct system, and was a sculptor in his spare time. He was also in

To build his cathedral dome—a self-supporting structure of close to four million bricks that is still the largest masonry dome in the world—Brunelleschi had to develop sophisticated mathematical modeling techniques and invent an array of hoists and other engineering tools.

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