Laurentian Library Vestibule

Michelangelo
1534
Mannerism
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Piazza San Lorenzo, 50122 Firenze FI, Italy

Inverted facade of columns, dramatic recesses in niches, and doorways set deep into walls create abstract plasticity. The vestibule’s heavy volutes and compressed spatial forms herald a new, self‑consciously expressive architecture.