However, his fame rested on solving a problem that had confounded Arnolfo di Cambio 120 years earlier.
Hungarian artist Istvan Orosz recreated an experiment in perspective by this man in a 2000 installation using a sheet and a mirror. He had a large ship named Badalone built to transport many of his supplies, but the ship sank on its first voyage nearly bankrupting him. Visual representations of him are scarce and include his portrait in Donatello's Beardless Prophet and a presumed appearance in Masaccio's Resurrection of the Son of Theophilus. His own works include his first commission, the so-called Hospital of the Innocents, and his last, the Pazzi Chapel. However, his fame rested on solving a problem that had confounded Arnolfo di Cambio 120 years earlier. For 10 points, name this man who won the right to design the dome of the Florence Cathedral seventeen years after finishing second to Ghiberti in the contest to design the second doors of the Florentine Baptistery.
Hungarian artist Istvan Orosz recreated an experiment in perspective by this man in a 2000 installation using a sheet and a mirror.
Filippo Brunelleschi