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TitleLaurentian Library, detail of brackets

Creator nameBuonarroti, Michelangelo

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator roleArchitect

Creation dateUnknown

Object typeArchitecture

MaterialsUnknown

LocationFlorence

SubjectsLibrary architectureArchitecture, Renaissance--Italy--Florence

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Epilogue

Cammy Brothers

Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture

~Michelangelo’s drawings provide a means of following the process by which he became an architect, and of tracing the origin of his designs. Yet in some ways his architecture still seems to come from nowhere. Adapting his methods of arriving at a new figurative idea to the realm of architecture had startling consequences. It led him, in the context of a...

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Cammy Brothers

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.205-209

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20919&redirecttoanchor=61114

Chapter subject tags:Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574Architectural drawing, RenaissanceArchitecture, Renaissance--ItalyMichelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564Art criticism--Italy--History

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