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CHAPTER III
CHURCH ARCHITECTURE OF THE FLORENTINE RENAISSANCE
No other work by Brunelleschi is comparable in merit to the great dome of the cathedral. None of his other opportunities were such as to call forth his best powers, which appear
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Fig. 10.—Plan of the chapel of the Pazzi.
to have required great magnitude to bring them into full play. In his other works the influence of his Roman studies is more manifest, and his own genius is less apparent. In these other works he revives the use of the orders, and employs them in
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