Laurentian Library
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 | Laurentian Library |
| Designer | Michelangelo |
| Location | Florence, Italy |
| Date | 1525 |
| Building Type | library |
| Climate | mediterranean |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Proto-Baroque |
| Street Address | |
| Notes | courtyard, and memorable stairway. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Laurentian_Library.html |
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"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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References
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.
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