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Article: Michelangelo at San Lorenzo: The Genius as Entrepreneur.
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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By William Wallace. Cambridge University Press. 1994. 40 [pounds sterling].
The subtitle of Wallace's book sets out his stall: here is Michelangelo opening up quarries, hiring workers, organising building sites, upbraiding sculptors whose work was slapdash. Not the solitary and moody artist but the man who had to get things built. There is a great advantage to focusing on Michelangelo in that we get close detail -- rather too much at times.--relating to the work of a great individual. Wallace has traced the relationship of most of the craftsmen who worked on the San Lorenzo commissions and a good deal of their personal histories. Wage books, employment rosters, ...