Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, born 1475 in Caprese near Florence and died 1564 in Rome, is entered in this atlas specifically for his architectural work: chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica from 1546, designer of its dome, and architect of the Laurentian Library, the Medici Chapel and the Capitoline Hill piazza in Rome. His painting and sculpture, including the Sistine Chapel ceiling and the David, are the record of the Arts atlas.
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Defining ContributionAppointed architect of St. Peter's Basilica in 1546, where he returned to Bramante's original centralized plan and designed the dome, completed after his death substantially to his design by Giacomo della Porta; also designed the Laurentian Library and the Medici Chapel in Florence and the Campidoglio piazza in Rome. 1 Connections
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Michelangelo late works, including the Laurentian Library vestibule, are widely cited as proto-Mannerist.
Michelangelo designed the dome of St Peter's and the Capitoline Hill scheme
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Why this is disputed. Michelangelo is widely treated as a forerunner of Mannerism in architecture, but whether his late work belongs to the style is disputed.
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The basilica's century-long rebuilding involved several architects in sequence; Michelangelo became chief architect in 1546, redesigned the dome on a centralized plan, and did not live to see it completed, which fell to Giacomo della Porta.
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In 1546, Michelangelo was appointed architect of St. Peter's Basilica, Rome.
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In Style: Renaissance Architecture, Lead
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475-18 February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.
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