When Michelangelo died, he did not leave behind scale drawings of the dome. Consequently, Della Porta decided to sketch out the cupola in life-size and the only covered place large enough for him ...

It's a counterfeit." But an architect's profile is built by everything he does, he explains, adding that an abandoned tower in the high-rise La Defense area west of Paris "earned me a lot of orders".

Unearthing Michelangelo's Sistine sketch Adriano Marinazzo, scholar-in-residence at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary, spent years sifting through Michelangelo’s sketches ...