Brunelleschi's Dome.: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture.
by King, Ross
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0802713661
- ISBN 13
- 9780802713667
- Seller
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Cranston, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
"...the story of how a Renaissance genius bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder we continue to marvel at today." [xiv], 194 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Good; spine cracked at pages 8-9, owner bookplate on first flyleaf; color pictorial dust jacket Very Good. Stock#ofc0663.
Synopsis
Ross King was born in Canada in 1962 and completed a PhD in English Literature at York University in Toronto. He is the author of two novels, Domino , soon to be made into a film, and Ex-Libris . He lives near Oxford.
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- Bookseller
- The Owl at the Bridge (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ofc0663
- Title
- Brunelleschi's Dome.
- Author
- King, Ross
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0802713661
- ISBN 13
- 9780802713667
- Publisher
- Walker & Company.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral Florence Italy Brunelleschi, Filippo, 1377-1446 dome design construction building structure
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art: Religious;
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