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| Architect | Michelangelo |
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| Location | Florence, Italy map | |||||
| Date | 1525 timeline | |||||
| Building Type | library | |||||
| Construction System | cut stone masonry | |||||
| Climate | mediterranean | |||||
| Context | urban | |||||
| Style | Proto-Baroque | |||||
| Notes | courtyard, and memorable stairway. | |||||
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| Discussion | Laurentian Library Commentary
"The Laurentian Library, Florence, is located in the cloister of S. Lorenzo. The library itself is a long room with reading desks, well lit by rows of windows between pilasters which correspond to the beams of the ceiling. This reposeful and clearly articulated space is preceded by a much taller monumental vestibule of square plan, almost entirely filled by an extraordinary staircase (executed by Ammanati 1559-), spilling from the library door and multiplying into three flights of stairs, of which the outer two are hardly usable. The vestibule walls are particularly unorthodox; paired columns rising from insubstantial volutes are recessed behind the white plaster wall surface from which project tabernacle niches with pilasters perversely widening towards their capitals." — Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. p888. | |||||
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Sources on Laurentian Library
Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. linear organization diagram, p196. — Updated edition available at Amazon.com Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. Boston: Butterworths, 1987. ISBN 0-408-01587-X. NA200.F63 1987. discussion p888. — The classic text of architectural history. Expanded 1996 edition available at Amazon.com Ludwig G. Heydenreich and Wolfgang Lotz. Architecture in Italy 1400 to 1600. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1974. ISBN 14-0560.38-6. NA1115.H4913. longitudinal section drawing, f81, p244. plan drawing, f81, p244. Peter Murray. Architecture of the Renaissance. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1971. ISBN 8109-1000-4. LC 70-149850. NA510.M87. axonometric drawing, f295, p198. Duane Siegrist, University of Oregon. Slide from photographer's collection, July 1993. PCD.3236.1011.0837.012. Henri Stierlin. Comprendre l'Architecture Universelle 1. Paris: Office du Livre S.A. Fribourg (Suisse), 1977. elevation of the staircase facade drawing, p196. no image credit. Johannes Wilde. Michelangelo, Six Lectures by Johannes Wilde. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978. aerial perspective, plate 131, p140. Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com
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