The Beautiful Drawings of Michelangelo Show Us Why Architects Should Be Polymaths, Not Specialists
This article was originally published by Common Edge as "Michelangelo?s Lesson: Specialization in Architecture is Not The Only Way."
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This article was originally published by Common Edge as "Michelangelo?s Lesson: Specialization in Architecture is Not The Only Way."A recent exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum in New York, Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer, provided a thrilling glimpse into the mind and methods of a true polymath. The exhibit has just closed, so I offer this selection of images. Photography was encouraged, and the intimacy of the presentation allowed insights and realizations.I?ve been studying or practicing architecture for 45 years, and the exhibit clarified how architects can think about what they do. It probably meant similar things to everyone feeling its resonant beauty, but I saw the complexities of a creative life in mid-application.
© Duo Dickinson
Curator Carmen C. Bombach makes Michelangelo Buonarroti?s sprawling, complex and interweaving intellect transparent and bracing. There is a mockup of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. A huge 16th-century architectural model used in the design of a chapel. A study for a fresco is fully exposed. And of course there are paintings, sculptures and architectural drawings arrayed in a gentle flow I could see before the hordes arrived. If I were a historian, I could expound on the intricacies and lyric joy found in ?Disegno,? the Renaissance...
© Duo Dickinson
This article was originally published by Common Edge as "Michelangelo?s Lesson: Specialization in Architecture is Not The Only Way."A recent exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum in New York, Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer, provided a thrilling glimpse into the mind and methods of a true polymath. The exhibit has just closed, so I offer this selection of images. Photography was encouraged, and the intimacy of the presentation allowed insights and realizations.I?ve been studying or practicing architecture for 45 years, and the exhibit clarified how architects can think about what they do. It probably meant similar things to everyone feeling its resonant beauty, but I saw the complexities of a creative life in mid-application.
© Duo Dickinson
Curator Carmen C. Bombach makes Michelangelo Buonarroti?s sprawling, complex and interweaving intellect transparent and bracing. There is a mockup of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. A huge 16th-century architectural model used in the design of a chapel. A study for a fresco is fully exposed. And of course there are paintings, sculptures and architectural drawings arrayed in a gentle flow I could see before the hordes arrived. If I were a historian, I could expound on the intricacies and lyric joy found in ?Disegno,? the Renaissance...
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