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Michelangelo and architectural drawing ...although it is not my profession...
[Susan Glasspool]
This exhibition is vitally important towards the understanding of Michelangelo as an architect and displays more than half of his architectural designs in existence in the world, including recent discoveries. It offers a completely new slant on this artist, for many of his projects also contain poems jotted down alongside his architectural sketches. Poems that somehow seem be an immediate expression of Michelangelo’s delight in these newly created architectural forms that evoke the great poetic themes of the time, Life and Death, Love, Time and Fame.
One of the novelties of the show is the first known architectural design by the great Master, a sheet of paper with sketches on either side (and recently attributed to him). It had been drawn over in ink by one of his students, and is completed by notes on the measurements, expressed in the system used in Florence at the time, again by Michelangelo. The drawing, showing the portal into the Florentine Church of San Felice in Piazza, was carried out for a project for the decorations for the annual festivities of the church. Michelangelo then gave it to his friend Jacone who was in charge of the scenic arrangements. The research required for this exhibition has also discovered another building designed by the great artist, Palazzo di Baccio Valori - today known as Palazzo Galli Tassi - in Via Pandolfini in Florence and up until now attributed to an “anonymous 16th century architect”.
“...although
it is not my
profession...”
Michelangelo and
architectural drawing
Buonarroti House
Via Ghibellina, 70
Tel. 055.241752
Hours: 9.30am-2pm
Closed on Tuesdays.
Entrance: 6,50 /4.50
From December 15th to March 19th
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