Work Record
Class [controlled]: • architecture  • sculpture  • European art
*Work Type [link]: • model (representation)
*Title: Wooden Model for the Façade of San Lorenzo, Florence
*Creator Display: Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475-1564)
*Role [link]: architect  [link]: Buonarroti, Michelangelo
*Creation Date: completed by 1555  [controlled]: • Earliest: 1545  • Latest: 1555
*Subject [links]: • architecture  • façade  • model (representation)  • San Lorenzo (Florence, Italy)
Style [link]: Renaissance
Culture [link]: Italian
*Current Location [link]: Casa Buonarroti (Florence, Italy)  • ID: unavailable
*Measurements: 216 x 283 x 50 cm (7 feet 3 inches x 9 feet 3 inches x 1 foot 7 inches); scale: 1: 12
[controlled]: • Value: 216  Unit: cm  Type: height  |  • Value: 283  Unit: cm  Type: width  |  • Value: 50  Unit: cm  Type: depth  ||  Scale: numeric  Value: 1  Type: base  |  Value: 12  Type: target
*Materials and Techniques: poplar, cypress, pine and other wood; traces of white lead paint and gesso
Material [links]: • poplar  • cypress  • pine  • lead-based paint  • gesso
Inscriptions: scale: 1: 12
Description: This is probably one of the two models described by Michelangelo in a letter to his brother, Lionardo, in September 1555. His designs for the façade had begun in 1515.
Description Source [link]: Millon, Henry A. and Craig Hugh Smyth. Michelangelo Architect: The Facade of San Lorenzo and the Drum and Dome of Saint Peter's. Milan: Olivetti, 1988. Page: 89
Related Work:
      Relationship Type [controlled]: depicts
      [link to Work Record]: San Lorenzo (Florence, Italy); begun in 1421

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