Title: Vestibule(Ricetto)
Artist: Michelangelo
Location: Laurentian Library, San Lorenzo, Florence
Date : 1523 - 9
Commissioner: Clement VII
- When Clement VII was made pope - he wanted to leave his imprint on Florence
- the library was built in the Chruch
- It housed Medici books + manuscripts that were collected over the 15th Century
- Provided a study space
- Books were expensive - cost more than a fresco
- Donation of books showed their wealth
- Example of a trend of private collection to public good like a modern library
- culture can now be more accessible - it is a humanist enterprise to be shared
- Pietra Serena used throughout - Serene environment
- originally planned with a glass cieling- allusion to Sistine Chapel + alllows natural light to enter the room
- coloums in recessions of walls
- reverse corners
- large staircase takes up space - lateral staircases connect with the main
- one stair poised as a seat
- central staircase comes out in rounded forms - rippling water - coming down rather than going up - affects climbers state of mind
- unfinished - later completed on his design.
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