Linda Li

Ross King’s book, Brunelleschi’s Dome (Bloomsbury, 2013), has a short chapter about the construction workers: “Men without Name or Family.” As this title suggests, those who actualized the architectural wonder of Brunelleschi’s Dome on Santa Maria del Fiore have long been ignored. In response to the historic “invisibility” of the laborers, this project, Gazing on Invisibility: Memorial to the Renaissance Laborers, reminds visitors of their contributions through the absence at its center.