Michelangelo’s dome in Rome: catastrophe avoided
Skirting danger in Renaissance Italy A conversation with Wayne Kalayjian, the author of “Saving Michelangelo’s Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution” by Bondo Wyszpolski Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome is so spacious inside that the Statue of Liberty, pedestal and all, could stand upright and not scrape the top of […]