By Dr Richard John

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Laurentian Library, San Lorenzo, Florence

   

Vestibule (begun 1524) and staircase (1550s)

 

Reading room  

The Medici chapel or New Sacristy, San Lorenzo, Florence (1519-34)

 

Compare to Brunelleschi's Old Sacristy

 St Peter's Basilica, Rome (from 1549)

 

Note the giant order of pilasters

Campidoglio, Rome (begun 1538)

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