Which architect designed Brunelleschi's Dome and contributed to linear perspective?

• A. Leon Battista Alberti
• B. Donatello
• C. Filippo Brunelleschi
• D. Andrea Palladio

Answer: (C)

The main idea here is recognizing the figure who links a remarkable architectural feat with the birth of a fundamental artistic technique. Filippo Brunelleschi designed the famous dome on Florence’s cathedral, a groundbreaking engineering solution of the early Renaissance. He is also associated with the emergence of linear perspective, the method that lets artists represent three-dimensional space on a flat surface using a vanishing point. While Alberti later wrote about perspective and helped formalize its rules, Brunelleschi is the one most closely tied to both the dome and the early development of perspective. The others were important artists or architects of the period, but they did not design the dome or contribute in the same foundational way to perspective.