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Catalog Level: item
Type: model
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Classification
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Terms:
architecture
sculpture
European
art
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Titles or Names
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Text: Wooden Model for the Façade
of San Lorenzo, Florence
Preference:
preferred
Type: descriptive
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Creation
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Creator Description: Michelangelo
Buonarroti (Italian, 1475-1564)
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Identity: Buonarroti, Michelangelo
Role: architect
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Creation Date:
completed by 1555
Earliest:
1545 Latest:
1555
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Style/Period/ Group/Movement
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Indexing Term: Renaissance
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Measurements
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Dimensions Description: 216 x 283
x 50 cm (7 feet 3 inches x 9 feet 3 inches x 1 foot
7 inches); scale: 1: 12
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Value: 216 Unit: cm Type:
height
Value: 283 Unit: cm Type:
width
Value: 50 Unit: cm Type:
depth
Scale: numeric
Value: 1 Unit: N/A Type:
base
Value: 12 Unit: N/A Type:
target
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Materials and Techniques
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Description: poplar, cypress, pine
and other wood; traces of white lead paint and gesso
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Material
Names:
poplar
cypress
pine
lead-based
paint
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Inscriptions/ Marks
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Transcription or Description: scale:
1: 12
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Subject Matter
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Indexing terms:
architecture
façade
San
Lorenzo (Florence, Italy)
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Descriptive Note
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Text: This is probably one of the two
models described by Michelangelo in a letter to his
brother, Lionardo, in September 1555. His designs
for the façade had begun in 1515. The facade
was never built.
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Citation: Millon and Smyth, Michelangelo
Architect: The Facade of San Lorenzo and the Drum
and Dome of Saint Peter's (1988)
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Related Works
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Relationship Type: depicts
Related Object/Work Label/Identification:
San Lorenzo (Florence, Italy); begun in 1421
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Current Location
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Repository Name/Geographic Location:
Casa Buonarroti (Florence, Italy)
Repository Number:
unavailable
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Revised 28 August 2006
