MICHELANGELO

Michelangelo (14751564), one of the great artistic figures of the Renaissance, is best known as a sculptor and painter. However he was also an important and highly original architect despite asserting that architecture was not his profession. This comprehensive s tudy examines the complex story of his architectural production from his early works in Rome at the beginning of the 16thcentury th rough to the Florentine period between 1516 and 1534 and finally the major Roman projects from 1534 to 1564.