Developing Ambiguity: Idea, Imagination and Michelangelo’s Sketches for the Porta Pia
(2019)
Journal Article
Kauffman, J. (2019). Developing Ambiguity: Idea, Imagination and Michelangelo’s Sketches for the Porta Pia. Architecture and Culture, 7(2), 249-270. https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2019.1643583
For his last architectural work, the Porta Pia, Michelangelo Buonarotti produced some extraordinary drawings, which this article proposes are the first in architecture’s history to embody the creative potentials of sketching. In them, many ideas coal... Read More about Developing Ambiguity: Idea, Imagination and Michelangelo’s Sketches for the Porta Pia.