The cathedral. Brunelleschi’s dome. Ushering in the great period of Renaissance humanism. Built in majesty so those seated below it could receive God. And yet, first and foremost it’s a testament to the order and beauty of the universe. A universe that is responsive and nonjudgmental, Temps, and in which mankind has a place: man as the measure of all things. And the poets and artists ran with that conviction. Perspective composition arranged around the human figure. The square and the circle became the bedrock of fifteenth-century architecture and in Vitruvian spirit Leonardo placed man inside
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the light at the end of the tunnel
