If you’ve ever been to Florence, or seen a picture of Florence, or have an interest in the Italian Renaissance, you will be familiar with the iconic dome of the Florentine cathedral, Santa Maria del ...

Six hundred years ago, Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi finished one and two in a contest to design the decorative bronze doors that now grace Florence's beloved Baptistry. Ghiberti, the ...

Italian archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a mini dome near Florence’s cathedral — evidence, they say, that the structure served as a scale model for the majestic structure designed by ...

A previously unknown terracotta bust of the famed early Renaissance architect who designed the Florence Cathedral dome was unveiled Thursday in the Tuscan capital, where it will be displayed ...

FLORENCE—A small dome made of bricks laid in a herringbone pattern has been unearthed near Florence’s Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral. This dome may have been constructed by Filippo Brunelleschi as a ...

The Duomo and adjacent bell tower are some of the most impressive things I've seen in my life and I've been to 43 states and 13 countries, they really do deserve whatever reasonable efforts we can do ...

Among the treasures in “Sculpture in the Age of Donatello: Renaissance Masterpieces From Florence Cathedral,” on view through June 14 at New York’s Museum of Biblical Art, are two rather plain wooden ...

In this article we extend the definition of wavelet variance to wavelet packets. We also adapt to wavelet packets an iterated cumulative sum of squares algorithm for the location of variance change ...