It may surprise the reader to find that one of the founding moments for the development of virtual reality actually happened in Florence, in the early 15th century. According to art historian Giorgio ...

We do not know, as the thick walls of the baptistery hold tight to their secrets. For a thousand years the walls bore witness as each and every Florentine newborn passed through their gates. In a ...

During the 15th century, the preeminent architect and engineer of the Italian Renaissance, Filippo Brunelleschi, described the principles of linear perspective. In the centuries since, perspective ...

Italian architect Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) was a talented sculptor, but that hardly meant a rarity in Florence in the 14 th and 15 th centuries. In those days, the Renaissance blossoming in ...

Sometime in the early 15th century, Renaissance artist Leon Battista Alberti and architect Filippo Brunelleschi invented the linear perspective. Alberti visualised the one-vanishing-point system in ...