Michelangelo e l’architettura dipinta e scolpita del Quattrocento

The essay traces Michelangelo Buonarroti's early pictorial training and carries out, by many exemples, a detailed review of the possible borrowings of Michelangelo's architecture from the architectura picta and the Florentine-Roman sculpted "opera del quadro"of the 15th century. It can be said that many of the inventions admired in Buonarroti's architecture - lexical and syntactical - were already the heritage of a widespread culture, shared in Florence and Rome by craftsmen active in every field of artistic production. Painters, sculptors, masters of stone and wood painting, goldsmiths, bronze workers, ceramists, miniaturists even, beyond the more or less whimsical repertoire, had incorporated the principles of ancient architectural classicism, based on the constructive coherence of the various elements, whether real or virtual.