7 - Ahalya Nirmalan: Brunelleschi

Filippo Brunelleschi was one of the main architects/engineers during the Italian Renaissance. Apparently it was Brunelleschi who was credited with inventing linear perspective in 1415. He demonstrated this geometrical method by painting the Baptistry (an octagonal building) in Florence. He put a hole through the painting at the perspective vanishing point and when you looked through the hole (from the unpainted side) at a mirror that showed the painting, an illusion of depth was created. Many painters then began to use linear perspective in their artwork.

Unfortunately, his perspective paintings were lost, but here is a dome that he designed.