AVON Staff Picks - Jason

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Jason Skoog, the Archives and Systems Librarian, is interested in the arts and architecture. He selected two videos as his favorites in AVON. The first is Great Cathedral Mystery, “In the 15th century, Filippo Brunelleschi, a goldsmith and sculptor with no serious architectural training, designed Florence Cathedral’s dome. To this day, it remains the largest brick dome ever built. Historians, architects, and engineers are still not certain how the dome was constructed without collapsing. In this documentary, architecture and engineering professor Massimo Ricci works with a team to build a 1:5 scale model of the dome in an attempt to uncover Brunelleschi’s secrets.” The second is Sleeping Beauty, “A performance of the classic ballet from the Kirov (now Mariinsky) Ballet of Saint Petersburg.”