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From: "Architexturez." <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:18:02 +0530
Michelangelo feted as architect
[foto] Florence show unveils 'poetry' behind projects (ANSA) - Florence,
October 26 - A new show here is set to celebrate the architectural
genius of Michelangelo - perhaps the least-known aspect of the
multi-faceted genius .
Some 40 original sketches at Florence's famed Casa Buonarroti will chart
the creations of the Renaissance great, unveiling newly discovered
buildings to set beside masterpieces like St.Peter's and the Capitol in
Rome .
The thrust of the show, according to curator Howard Burns of the Scuola
Normale di Pisa, is to illuminate Michelangelo's fundamentally "poetic"
sense of architecture - as underscored by the poetical musings found on
several newly discovered manuscripts .
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http://ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2006-10-26_1264853.html