Michelangelo and the Attic Order of St. Peter's in Rome

FAIN: RO-11057-72

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA 02139-4307)
Henry A. Million (Project Director: January 1972 to present)

To complete a book which discusses Michelangelo's original designs for the attic of St. Peter's and the existing attic. The part of the book yet to completed discusses Michelangelo's intentions for other portions of the building and redefines its relationship to that which mid-sixteenth century architects thought ancient Roman vaulted architecture to be.