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ionships" to "represent and evoke beauty" (Greenhalgh 124). Alberti defined the rational appreciation of the beauty of geometry that was the key to the architecture of the Greeks and Romans. But Brunelleschi had understood much of this instinctively. Brunelleschi may have confused true Roman ruins with later imitations, but he saw the geometry of perfect forms as a means of moving architecture forward.

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