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| frame structure used to support the centering for a dome |
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| : a three-dimensional and sometimes clock-work driven device which shows the positions of the stars and planets relative to the earth. |
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| structure built inside a dome to support it during construction |
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| in addition to the obvious, a tension ring used in domes to resist the lateral tensile forces which develop toward the base of a dome due to the self-weight (dead load) of the material it is made out of. |
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| method of constructing a one-point perspective by drawing lines from the eye point through the picture plane to the points of equally spaced intervals on the ground plane. |
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| in masonry, a pattern of stone resembling the zigzag shape of the bones in this fish. |
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| structure built over the opening (oculus) in the top of a dome to admit light while closing out the elements and giving a terminal gesture to the rise of the dome. |
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| "serene or fair stone” = the gray sandstone of Brunelleschi’s arches and pilasters. |
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| 1377-1446 (Ah....there should be more information here...) |
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| (1235-1310) principal architect of Santa Maria del Fiore and the Palazzo Veccio |
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| (1471-1528) German graphic artist and early developer of perspective techniques. |
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| (1390-1441) Dutch painter famous for the narrative use of perspective, above all in the enigmatic “The Bethrothal of the Arnolfini “(1434). |
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| (1416-1469) head of the major banking enterprise in Florence. |
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| Lorenzo the Magnificent) (1449-1492) Grandson of Cosimo who carried on the banking enterprise. |
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| (1397-1475) early perspective painter |
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| (1410-1492) Early perspective painter who wrote De Prospectiva Pingendi, a remarkable treatise on perspective methods. |
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