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    The Laurentian Library (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana or BML) is a historic library in Florence, Italy, containing more than 11,000 manuscripts and 4...
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    link between the charitable building and the public square, and the Laurentian Library where the collection of books established by the Medici family could...
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    Rome, and The Last Judgment on its altar wall. His design of the Laurentian Library pioneered Mannerist architecture. At the age of 71, he succeeded Antonio...
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  • languages Laurentian French, the variety of the French language spoken in Canada Laurentian Codex, a Russian manuscript Laurentian library or Biblioteca...
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    Brunelleschi and having interior decoration and sculpture by Donatello; the Laurentian Library by Michelangelo; the Medici Chapels, two structures that include the...
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    Masterpieces". Smithsonian Magazine. "Laurentian Library by Michelangelo". Cooper, James G. (2011). "Michelangelo's Laurentian Library: Drawings and Design Process"...
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    skin. Another interesting example of a chained library is Florence's sixteenth-century Laurentian Library, designed by Michelangelo for Lorenzo de' Medici...
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    where, in addition to the Sacristy, the project for a monumental Laurentian Library had been added five years earlier. It is clear how the pope was moved...
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    often called ignudi and of the Libyan Sibyl, his vestibule to the Laurentian Library, the figures on his Medici tombs, and above all his Last Judgment...
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    the Malatestiana Library. Cosimo de Medici in Florence established his own collection, which formed the basis of the Laurentian Library. In Rome, the papal...
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