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The Feud that Sparked the Renaissance: How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World by Paul R

by David Morrison White

[8.Jan.02] :. He proposes a reasonable and engaging thesis -- that in Florence in 1403, two men, Filippo Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti, fired the first shots of an artistic revolution that marked 'the beginning of a modern consciousness.'"

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