The Magnifici Tomb: A Key Project in Michelangelo's Architectural Career

Abstract

Challenged by the Tomb's internal composition, its relation to the Dukes' tombs, and its assimilation into the architecture of the Medici Chapel as a whole, Michelangelo reached increasingly sophisticated solutions in 1521–24 and experimented with approaches to classicism, developing rapidly as an architect. The present study publishes a copy of an important unknown design, and analyzes the difficult late sketches that look forward to the Laurentian Vestibule.

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Andrew Morrogh

Andrew Morrogh's exhibition catalogue, Disegni di architetti fiorentini 1540–1640, an introduction to the holdings of the Uffizi in the field, was published in 1985. One result of his subsequent research on Michelangelo's architecture, his article, “The Palace of the Roman People: Michelangelo at the Palazzo dei Conservatori,” will appear in the Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana next year [Department of Art, Cochrane-Woods Art Center, 5540 South Greenwood Avenue, Chicago, Ill. 60637].