<Tr> <Th> Notable work </Th> <Td> Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Movement </Th> <Td> Early Renaissance </Td> </Tr> <P> Filippo Brunelleschi (Italian: (fiˈlippo brunelˈleski); 1377--April 15, 1446) was an Italian designer and a key figure in architecture, recognised to be the first modern engineer, planner and sole construction supervisor . He was one of the founding fathers of the Renaissance . He is generally well known for developing a technique for linear perspective in art and for building the dome of the Florence Cathedral . Heavily dependent on mirrors and geometry, to "reinforce Christian spiritual reality", his formulation of linear perspective governed pictorial depiction of space until the late 19th century . It also had the most profound--and quite unanticipated--influence on the rise of modern science . His accomplishments also include other architectural works, sculpture, mathematics, engineering, and ship design . His principal surviving works are to be found in Florence, Italy; however his two original linear perspective panels have been lost . </P> <P> Brunelleschi was born in Florence, Italy . Little is known about his early life, the only sources being Antonio Manetti and Giorgio Vasari . According to these sources, Filippo's father was Brunellesco di Lippo, a notary, and his mother was Giuliana Spini . Filippo was the middle of their three children . The young Filippo was given a literary and mathematical education intended to enable him to follow in the footsteps of his father, a civil servant . Being artistically inclined, however, Filippo enrolled in the Arte della Seta, the silk merchants' Guild, which also included goldsmiths, metalworkers, and bronze workers . He became a master goldsmith in 1398 . It was thus not a coincidence that his first important building commission, the Ospedale degli Innocenti, came from the guild to which he belonged . </P>

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