Design for a Tomb
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A design for a tomb does not ordinarily interest anyone but the designer and his client. There is, however, in the Museum Print Department a sixteenth-century tomb drawing of more than ordinary interest, since it presents a puzzle as rich in clues as a detective story. Once folded in half and bound in a scrapbook with the shop drawings of an unidentified atelier, this drawing shows an elaborate architectural design for a monument. Perhaps the most obvious thing about it is that the designer knew the work of Michelangelo; it could only have been made after the creation of the figures of Night and Day on the tomb of Giuliano de' Medici in Florence and after the creation of the idiom of the tomb of Cecchino Bracci in Santa Maria in Aracoeli
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