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Title	LAURENTIAN LIBRARY
View	East facade, frontal view depicting the relationship with the library and vestibule facade
Notes	educational, collection
Work Type	library
Style/Period	Renaissance Mannerist
Creator Name	Michelangelo Buonarroti
Creator Nationality	Italian
School of Creator	Renaissance
Date.Creator Birth	1475
Date.Creator Death	1564
Contributors to Project	completed by Giorgio Vasari and Bartolomeo Ammanati
Major Design Aspects	vestibule strong axis play of classical elements play of scale
Elements & Spatial Types	stair as feature blind window paired columns inverted column tabernacle
Climate Type	Mediterranean
Country	Italy
City	Florence
State/Province	Tuscany
Alternate Place Names	San Lorenzo
Location.Notes	Piazza San Lorenzo
Architectural Material	stone, stucco
Structural System	bearing masonry
Dates	begun 1524
Century	16C
Photographer	Scott Gilchrist, Archivision
Date Photographed	8/31/1990
Subject Information	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. Source: Sir Banister Fletcher, 'A History of Architecture', p 888.
Credit Line	Archivision Inc. (all images copyright Scott Gilchrist / Archivision.com)
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193

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