Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume II: The Western Perspective, Volume II (with CourseMate Printed Access Card)

by Fred S. Kleiner

osPedale degli innocenti At the end of the second decade of the 15th century, Brunelleschi received two important architectural commissions in Florence—to construct a dome (fig. 16-30a) for the city’s late medieval cathedral (fig. 14-18), and to design the Ospedale degli Innocenti (Hospital of the Innocents, fig. 16-31), a home for Florentine orphans and foundlings.