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Romain Courtemanche Photography

One axis, one idea. When Michelangelo took over St. Peter’s dome in 1546, he solved its complexity through geometry and force. These drawings strip the design to its logic: drum, vault, lantern, all pulling the eye upward and back to center. No ornament carrying the meaning. The architecture is the argument. Michelangelo died before the dome was finished but the idea was already complete on paper. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com

House on The Crescent.

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Dante Bini Architect

The painting shows the view towards the Dogana, the porticoed custom house at the entrance to the Grand Canal, and the church of Santa Maria della Salute, which was built and dedicated to the Virgin Mary of la salute (health) after the plague epidemic of 1630-31. Beyond these buildings to the left, part of the Guidecca can be glimpsed. To the right, part of the Ponte della Pescheria can be seen, and the column of San Teodoro in front of the south-east corner of the Libreria. The Libreria was architect Jacopo Sansovino's most famous Venetian building, begun in 1537.

The cupola and upper levels of the Manhattan Municipal Building in NYC