Michelangelo: Anatomy as Architecture consists of drawings, archival pages, and engravings on loan from the finest collection of Michelangelo drawings, the Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy. Combined with Old Master drawings from the collection of the Museum, the exhibition depicts and illustrates Michelangelo’s concept and philosophy that architecture was anatomical in a way that has never been done before. The exhibition explores new research in Michelangelo architectural studies, includes digital reconstructions of buildings never before believed to be influenced by Michelangelo, and lectures by world-renowned scholars on Michelangelo.
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475—1564) had a vision of architecture that was rooted in the understanding of the human body, and his theory of anatomy was articulated in the study and design of architecture. While most Renaissance architects treated the human body as analogy, Michelangelo, a supreme master of the human form, took the comparison further. He viewed anatomy—muscles, nerves, and human proportions—as metaphors for the active elements of architecture.
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