Why Florence Started the Renaissance
For 1,300 years, Rome's Pantheon stood as the largest dome in the world.
Then, a goldsmith named Brunelleschi, with little architecture expertise, no Roman concrete, no scaffolding, and no ribs, built a bigger one.
Within a century, the same city produced Leonardo, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Machiavelli, and the Medici.
Why Florence?
Mountains kept Italy's cities independent. Florence, on the crossroads between Rome and the north, became a trade stop. Wool made it rich, financing the wool trade made it a banking power, and backing the winning side in the Papal wars gave it control of banking and alum against its archrival Siena. All around, the ruins of Rome's fallen empire showed what the Ancients could do. That was the inspiration that made the Florentines convert their money into the Renaissance.
From the article Why Florence Started the Renaissance. Poster by Igor Brajković - Brala, the winner of the 2026 Uncharted Territories design competition.
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