Brunelleschi's Risk-Taking

The story of Brunelleschi's dome is one of human ambition achieved through virtuosity, creative leadership, courage and risk-taking. I believe from these various characteristics, the one that most prompted Brunelleschi to succeed in the construction of his master piece was risk-taking. He was taking a great risk to build the biggest dome ever. Filippo Brunelleschi, an intelligent Florentine architect, took the risk of planning a way to build the dome. This was a risk because domes were last made by the ancient Romans and were long forgotten. He took the risk of bringing the idea back to life, studying how the Romans built their domes and attempting to build one himself. Because the cathedral was so wide, many architects did not think it would be possible to build a dome across it. Brunelleschi was taking a huge risk when he began to build the dome, considering the fact that it might collapse in the middle part. Brunelleschi succeeded in building the dome to be self-supporting by constructing it with an inner and outer shell. The inner shell was built with light materials and the outer shell was built with heavier materials. Brunelleschi’s risk-taking in trying to experiment with his idea and then making it work had a positive effect on Florence. Brunelleschi also had high expectations from the people of Florence of building the dome. It would be a great pride of the Florence. Through Fillippo Brunelleschi’s risk-taking and making an attempt to do something new, Florence had great success in building the greatest dome ever built.