The city that made Mark Rothko
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In the vestibule of Florence’s Laurentian Library, Michelangelo’s classical design is of magnificent claustrophobia; windows and doors filled with stone. A few hundred metres away, at what is now the Museo di San Marco, what used to be monastic cells have small windows to the sky, but are essentially enclosed, solitary rooms.
No wonder these locations appealed to a painter who would feel his way to wall-sized works drenched in colour but less reliant on external light than on their own, mysteri
No wonder these locations appealed to a painter who would feel his way to wall-sized works drenched in colour but less reliant on external light than on their own, mysteri
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