Vestibule, Laurentian Library,
San Lorenzo
Michelangelo Buonarrotti
begun 1525
Model Info
This model was created from 543 photographs captured during the summer of 2021. The team was granted 10 hours of exclusive access over the course of three days. The photographs were developed and edited using Adobe Lightroom then processed with Agisoft Metashape to generate a photogrammetric reconstruction. The 3D model was edited and decimated with ZBrush before texturing and export.
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Further Reading
Cammy Brothers, "The Laurentian Library: Affect, Music, and Architecture,” in Das Auge der Architektur. Zur Frage der Bildlichkeit in der Baukunst, eds. Matteo Burioni, Johannes Grave and Andreas Beyer, Munich, 2011, pp. 321-52.
Cammy Brothers, “Designing What You Cannot Draw: Michelangelo and the Laurentian Library,” in Michelangelo und die Sprache der Architekturzeichnung/Michelangelo e il linguaggio del disegno di architettura, ed. Alessandro Nova and Golo Maurer, 2012, pp. 153-68.