19 September 2010

Challenge.


As for how beautiful the edifice is, it is its own witness ... it can be confidently asserted that the ancients never built to such a height or risked challenging the sky itself.

Brunelleschi's genius was so commanding that we can surely say that he was sent from heaven to renew the art of architecture.

- Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists

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