1000 Years of World Architecture: An Illustrated GuideThis volume is a guide to the main characteristics, movements and regional variants of a millennium of Western architecture, from the early Romanesque to the most recent contemporary trends. |
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Page 148
... Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564 From neo - Platonism to moral tension Growing up at the court of Lorenzo de ' Medici , Michelangelo was profoundly affected by neo - Platonic culture , and from the very beginning of his career he pre ...
... Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564 From neo - Platonism to moral tension Growing up at the court of Lorenzo de ' Medici , Michelangelo was profoundly affected by neo - Platonic culture , and from the very beginning of his career he pre ...
Page 149
... Michelangelo brought the building of St Peter's back to Bramante's original idea of the central plan , concentrating his attention on the dome , understood as the concluding element of the building and also its coordinator . The high ...
... Michelangelo brought the building of St Peter's back to Bramante's original idea of the central plan , concentrating his attention on the dome , understood as the concluding element of the building and also its coordinator . The high ...
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... Michelangelo's dome , while the planned third arm , which was to close off the space like a theatrical curtain , was never made . The opening of Via della Conciliazione in 1936-50 has irremediably altered Bernini's idea . Carlo Maderno ...
... Michelangelo's dome , while the planned third arm , which was to close off the space like a theatrical curtain , was never made . The opening of Via della Conciliazione in 1936-50 has irremediably altered Bernini's idea . Carlo Maderno ...
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