Two drawings of Michele Sanmicheli
Abstract
The first of the sixteenth-century drawings which are the subject of these notes is part of the collection of drawings by Palladio preserved at the R.I.B.A. in London and has so far been thought to be by an unknown author; the second belongs to the corpus of sheets by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger preserved at the Uffizi in Florence and, in addition to the hand of Sangallo, a part executed by another draftsman can be recognized, also so far unidentified. However, both on the basis of a comparison of the calligraphy of the caption of the first drawing and of some of the annotations of the second with autographs by Sanmicheli, and also from the buildings represented, it is possible to attribute these sheets to the Veronese architect and establish a date of before 1506 for the first and 1526 for the second.
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